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(646f) Dynamic Latent Variable Regression for Data Modeling and Monitoring

Authors 

Qin, S. J. - Presenter, University of Southern California
Zhu, Q., University of Southern California
Multivariate process and quality measurements are often highly cross-correlated, but they are also often highly auto-correlated in most industrial processes due to dynamics. It is therefore critical to develop data modeling methods to efficiently capture these relations among process variables (X) and quality variables (Y). Partial least squares (PLS) and principal component analysis (PCA) serve as effective methods to capture cross-correlations, which have been widely used as basic methods to model the multivariate data [1-3], and used for multivariate statistical process monitoring [4-6].

For supervised learning or regression type of modeling, PLS is a dimensionality reduction algorithm that extracts latent variables (i.e., outer model projection) based on the maximum covariance criterion. However, the ultimate objective is to perform regression, as properly reflected in the inner modeling objectives. This discrepancy in the outer model and inner model objectives leads to many drawbacks. One of them is that the extracted scores of PLS may contain orthogonal variations, which are irrelevant to predict or monitor the quality variables. Due to the covariance objective in PLS, it usually requires multiple latent variables even to predict a single output variable [7].

Several subsequent works were proposed to overcome the above issue, including orthogonalized PLS [8] and concurrent PLS [9]. An alternative way is to use canonical correlation analysis (CCA) proposed by Hotelling [10]. CCA focuses only on extracting the multidimensional correlation between X and Y, and it performs better in prediction than PLS. One issue involved in CCA is that it pays no attention to the input variances, and it cannot exploit the input variance structure. Therefore, a concurrent CCA (CCCA) combineing CCA and PCA was proposed to exploit the variances and correlation in process-specific and quality-specific spaces [11].

Both PLS and CCA need additional processing to achieve good performance. Recently, Zhu and Qin [12] proposed a latent variable least squares (LVLS) method as an alternative method to exploit latent structured relations between X and Y. LVLS aims to minimize the prediction error between the input scores and the output scores, and it focuses on both the input variance structure and the prediction efficiency, which overcomes the drawbacks of PLS and CCA.

LVLS considers only static relations between X and Y. However, when the relationship between X and Y are dynamic, the static LVLS is not suitable for dynamic system modeling and subsequent process and quality monitoring. Several modified dynamic algorithms have been proposed for PLS and CCA to deal with dynamic processes [13-17]. Dong and Qin [17] developed a dynamic inner PLS (DiPLS) for dynamic system modelling, and it provides an explicit description for dynamic inner model and outer model.

In this paper, a dynamic inner LVLS (DiLVLS) algorithm is proposed to capture the dynamic relation between X and Y with a weighted combination of lagged process variables X. The objective of DiLVLS is to minimize the prediction error between the output scores and the weighted combination of lagged input scores, which builds the outer relation of DiLVLS model. A regularization term is also included in the objective to overcome the collinearity problems. The consistent inner model is developed in inner modeling to describe the dynamic relations. After auto-correlation is extracted, the static LVLS model is then employed to exploit the static cross-correlations between the residuals of X and Y. The corresponding monitoring scheme is also developed for DiLVLS model. A synthetic case study and the Tennessee Eastman process are used to demonstrate the prediction and monitoring effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

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