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Main Authors: Jin, Zhongnan, Min, Jie, Hong, Yili, Du, Pang, Yang, Qingyu
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02557
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author Jin, Zhongnan
Min, Jie
Hong, Yili
Du, Pang
Yang, Qingyu
author_facet Jin, Zhongnan
Min, Jie
Hong, Yili
Du, Pang
Yang, Qingyu
contents Multi-sensor data that track system operating behaviors are widely available nowadays from various engineering systems. Measurements from each sensor over time form a curve and can be viewed as functional data. Clustering of these multivariate functional curves is important for studying the operating patterns of systems. One complication in such applications is the possible presence of sensors whose data do not contain relevant information. Hence it is desirable for the clustering method to equip with an automatic sensor selection procedure. Motivated by a real engineering application, we propose a functional data clustering method that simultaneously removes noninformative sensors and groups functional curves into clusters using informative sensors. Functional principal component analysis is used to transform multivariate functional data into a coefficient matrix for data reduction. We then model the transformed data by a Gaussian mixture distribution to perform model-based clustering with variable selection. Three types of penalties, the individual, variable, and group penalties, are considered to achieve automatic variable selection. Extensive simulations are conducted to assess the clustering and variable selection performance of the proposed methods. The application of the proposed methods to an engineering system with multiple sensors shows the promise of the methods and reveals interesting patterns in the sensor data.
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spellingShingle Multivariate Functional Clustering with Variable Selection and Application to Sensor Data from Engineering Systems
Jin, Zhongnan
Min, Jie
Hong, Yili
Du, Pang
Yang, Qingyu
Methodology
Multi-sensor data that track system operating behaviors are widely available nowadays from various engineering systems. Measurements from each sensor over time form a curve and can be viewed as functional data. Clustering of these multivariate functional curves is important for studying the operating patterns of systems. One complication in such applications is the possible presence of sensors whose data do not contain relevant information. Hence it is desirable for the clustering method to equip with an automatic sensor selection procedure. Motivated by a real engineering application, we propose a functional data clustering method that simultaneously removes noninformative sensors and groups functional curves into clusters using informative sensors. Functional principal component analysis is used to transform multivariate functional data into a coefficient matrix for data reduction. We then model the transformed data by a Gaussian mixture distribution to perform model-based clustering with variable selection. Three types of penalties, the individual, variable, and group penalties, are considered to achieve automatic variable selection. Extensive simulations are conducted to assess the clustering and variable selection performance of the proposed methods. The application of the proposed methods to an engineering system with multiple sensors shows the promise of the methods and reveals interesting patterns in the sensor data.
title Multivariate Functional Clustering with Variable Selection and Application to Sensor Data from Engineering Systems
topic Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02557