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New Challenges in Machine Learning for Industrial Applications

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Industrial Technologies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2023) | Viewed by 4089

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Interests: deep and machine learning; knowledge graphs; semantic interoperability; transfer learning; explainable and transparent artificial intelligence
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Dear Colleagues,

Few other topics are as prominent in the digital transformation as artificial intelligence. More precisely, it is machine learning (ML) and, subsumed within it, deep learning, which are central to the realization of essential functions in industrial processes (e.g., predictive maintenance, predictive quality, visual quality control, etc.) and can contribute to the optimization and sustainability of the same. Hardly a day goes by without new publications dealing with the application of new ML methods in an industrial context. Likewise, articles can be found in all forms of journalistic media that deal with artificial intelligence. In the application field, too, more and more companies are abandoning their initial skepticism and deciding to tap into these promised potentials for themselves. However, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the transfer of individual machine learning methods to applications in an industrial context is inadequate. Capabilities such as robustness, transparency, and traceability, as well as transferability must also be available in technical systems that rely on ML-based processes. However, common, traditional approaches to creating such capabilities in engineering systems are not usable in the ML context. In this Special Issue, we address research papers that deal precisely with these new challenges arising from the application and successive establishment of ML-based systems in industrial applications. We will only consider papers that address both the application of machine learning in an industrial context alongside specific challenges of the kind mentioned above.

Prof. Dr. Tobias Meisen
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Keywords

  • industrial machine learning
  • industrial deep learning
  • predictive maintenance
  • predictive quality
  • visual quality control
  • Industry 4.0
  • digital transformation
  • robustness
  • transparency
  • traceability
  • transferability

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Blood Pressure Monitoring Based on Flexible Encapsulated Sensors
by Weihong Sun and Weidong Chang
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(13), 7473; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13137473 - 25 Jun 2023
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Blood pressure monitoring is a significant concern in the field of healthcare, and the utilization of flexible encapsulated sensors presents a promising solution for achieving noninvasive and comfortable monitoring. This paper presents a study on the flexible encapsulation of MEMS pressure sensors and [...] Read more.
Blood pressure monitoring is a significant concern in the field of healthcare, and the utilization of flexible encapsulated sensors presents a promising solution for achieving noninvasive and comfortable monitoring. This paper presents a study on the flexible encapsulation of MEMS pressure sensors and the development of an enhanced arterial tonometry method for blood pressure measurement, ultimately leading to the realization of a blood pressure monitoring system based on flexible encapsulated sensors. To improve wearer comfort and acquire reliable pulse signals, a flexible encapsulation sensor combining parylene and PDMS materials was fabricated. Additionally, to address the issue of low accuracy in blood pressure measurement, various machine learning algorithms were compared and analyzed, leading to the identification of the random forest model as the optimal regressor. Consequently, a blood pressure monitoring system based on the improved arterial tension method was designed and implemented. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system achieved a significant enhancement of 31.4% and 21% in the accuracy of systolic and diastolic blood pressure measurements, respectively, compared with the arterial tension method. Full article
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Information Extraction from Industrial Sensor Data Using Time Series Meta-Features
by Niclas Grabowski, Ron Kremser, Roman Düssel, Albert Mulder and Dietmar Tutsch
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(12), 7065; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13127065 - 12 Jun 2023
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In the smart manufacturing sector, analyzing time series data is essential for monitoring plants and machinery to prevent costly failures or shutdowns. In order to gain new insights and make better control decisions, new methods are needed for extracting information and interpreting sensor [...] Read more.
In the smart manufacturing sector, analyzing time series data is essential for monitoring plants and machinery to prevent costly failures or shutdowns. In order to gain new insights and make better control decisions, new methods are needed for extracting information and interpreting sensor data from hundreds of systems. In this paper, we present an approach for visualizing and interpreting sensor data from TRIMET Aluminium SE Essen (TAE) using time series meta-features and principal component analysis (PCA). We describe our general approach of generating multiple two-dimensional feature spaces to identify salient and implausible sensor data. Using a set of 20 time series meta-features, we applied our approach to sensor data from TAE which were generated by thermocouples. Each step of the approach was integrated into a dashboard to ensure a user-friendly and approachable interaction in finding salient and implausible sensor data. Full article
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