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Main Authors: Windmann, Alexander, Steude, Henrik, Boschmann, Daniel, Niggemann, Oliver
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03494
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author Windmann, Alexander
Steude, Henrik
Boschmann, Daniel
Niggemann, Oliver
author_facet Windmann, Alexander
Steude, Henrik
Boschmann, Daniel
Niggemann, Oliver
contents Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in domains such as manufacturing and energy distribution generate complex time series data crucial for Prognostics and Health Management (PHM). While Deep Learning (DL) methods have demonstrated strong forecasting capabilities, their adoption in industrial CPS remains limited due insufficient robustness. Existing robustness evaluations primarily focus on formal verification or adversarial perturbations, inadequately representing the complexities encountered in real-world CPS scenarios. To address this, we introduce a practical robustness definition grounded in distributional robustness, explicitly tailored to industrial CPS, and propose a systematic framework for robustness evaluation. Our framework simulates realistic disturbances, such as sensor drift, noise and irregular sampling, enabling thorough robustness analyses of forecasting models on real-world CPS datasets. The robustness definition provides a standardized score to quantify and compare model performance across diverse datasets, assisting in informed model selection and architecture design. Through extensive empirical studies evaluating prominent DL architectures (including recurrent, convolutional, attention-based, modular, and structured state-space models) we demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of our approach. We publicly release our robustness benchmark to encourage further research and reproducibility.
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spellingShingle Quantifying Robustness: A Benchmarking Framework for Deep Learning Forecasting in Cyber-Physical Systems
Windmann, Alexander
Steude, Henrik
Boschmann, Daniel
Niggemann, Oliver
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in domains such as manufacturing and energy distribution generate complex time series data crucial for Prognostics and Health Management (PHM). While Deep Learning (DL) methods have demonstrated strong forecasting capabilities, their adoption in industrial CPS remains limited due insufficient robustness. Existing robustness evaluations primarily focus on formal verification or adversarial perturbations, inadequately representing the complexities encountered in real-world CPS scenarios. To address this, we introduce a practical robustness definition grounded in distributional robustness, explicitly tailored to industrial CPS, and propose a systematic framework for robustness evaluation. Our framework simulates realistic disturbances, such as sensor drift, noise and irregular sampling, enabling thorough robustness analyses of forecasting models on real-world CPS datasets. The robustness definition provides a standardized score to quantify and compare model performance across diverse datasets, assisting in informed model selection and architecture design. Through extensive empirical studies evaluating prominent DL architectures (including recurrent, convolutional, attention-based, modular, and structured state-space models) we demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of our approach. We publicly release our robustness benchmark to encourage further research and reproducibility.
title Quantifying Robustness: A Benchmarking Framework for Deep Learning Forecasting in Cyber-Physical Systems
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03494