Covariate-Dependent Functional Principal Component Analysis for SHM
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| author | Wittenberg, Philipp Neumann, Lizzie Maes, Kristof Gertheiss, Jan |
| author_facet | Wittenberg, Philipp Neumann, Lizzie Maes, Kristof Gertheiss, Jan |
| contents | In Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), sensor measurements and derived features such as eigenfrequencies often exhibit systematic daily patterns and can therefore be naturally represented as functional data. Furthermore, these patterns are typically influenced by environmental factors, particularly temperature, which can substantially affect the observed system response. While most existing methods for removing environmental effects assume that confounding influences affect only the mean response, it has been shown that environmental and operational factors may also alter the covariance structure of the residual process. To address this limitation in a functional data monitoring framework, we incorporate so-called covariate-dependent functional principal component analysis (CD-FPCA), which allows eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the residual process to vary smoothly with covariates such as temperature. The proposed methodology is illustrated using an extended version of the KW51 railway bridge eigenfrequency dataset. This case study suggests that accounting for covariate effects beyond the functional mean can improve the robustness of the monitoring procedure, in particular by reducing environmentally induced (false) alarms under challenging low-temperature conditions. |
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| spellingShingle | Covariate-Dependent Functional Principal Component Analysis for SHM Wittenberg, Philipp Neumann, Lizzie Maes, Kristof Gertheiss, Jan Methodology Applications J.2 In Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), sensor measurements and derived features such as eigenfrequencies often exhibit systematic daily patterns and can therefore be naturally represented as functional data. Furthermore, these patterns are typically influenced by environmental factors, particularly temperature, which can substantially affect the observed system response. While most existing methods for removing environmental effects assume that confounding influences affect only the mean response, it has been shown that environmental and operational factors may also alter the covariance structure of the residual process. To address this limitation in a functional data monitoring framework, we incorporate so-called covariate-dependent functional principal component analysis (CD-FPCA), which allows eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the residual process to vary smoothly with covariates such as temperature. The proposed methodology is illustrated using an extended version of the KW51 railway bridge eigenfrequency dataset. This case study suggests that accounting for covariate effects beyond the functional mean can improve the robustness of the monitoring procedure, in particular by reducing environmentally induced (false) alarms under challenging low-temperature conditions. |
| title | Covariate-Dependent Functional Principal Component Analysis for SHM |
| topic | Methodology Applications J.2 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18279 |