Design of a robust classification fusion platform for structural health diagnostics

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Tamilselvan, Prasanna
Wang, Pingfeng
Hu, Chao
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2014
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Design , Algorithm , Bearings , Maintenance , Safety , Reliability , Robustness
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Tamilselvan, Prasanna; Wang, Pingfeng; Hu, Chao. 2014. Design of a robust classification fusion platform for structural health diagnostics. ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference Volume 3A: 39th Design Automation Conference Portland, Oregon, USA, August 4–7, 2013
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Efficient health diagnostics provides benefits such as improved safety, improved reliability, and reduced costs for the operation and maintenance of engineered systems. This paper presents a multi-attribute classification fusion approach which leverages the strengths provided by multiple membership classifiers to form a robust classification model for structural health diagnostics. Health diagnosis using the developed approach consists of three primary steps: (i) fusion formulation using a k-fold cross validation model; (ii) diagnostics with multiple multi-attribute classifiers as member algorithms; and (iii) classification fusion through a weighted majority voting with dominance system. State-of-the-art classification techniques from three broad categories (i.e., supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and statistical inference) were employed as the member algorithms. The proposed classification fusion approach is demonstrated with a bearing health diagnostics problem. Case study results indicated that the proposed approach outperforms any stand-alone member algorithm with better diagnostic accuracy and robustness.

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American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference;v.3A
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