Sliding Dynamic Data Window: Improving Properties of the Incremental Learning Methods

Abstract For updating Fault Detection and Diagnosing (FDD) systems, various techniques have been successfully proposed and implemented. Among them, Incremental Learning (IL) algorithms have shown to be reliable for updating FDD while it has own shortcomings. The FDD system with IL algorithms learns from recent available data without forgetting any previous redundant information. In order to address this drawback of IL for updating the FDD, the use of an Incremental Learning Dynamic Window (ILDW) is proposed. Based on ILDW dated information comparing with the current concept of the process is disregarded and the FDD within the sliding dynamic window is retrained. In this study advantageous of the ILDW are proved while Support Vector Machines (SVM) is employed as fault detection method with its application on simulation of the CSTR reactor. Results show that employing ILDW for updating SVM instead of just IL not only leads to similar outcomes regarding accuracy, but also significantly reduce the number of required support vectors and training time.