A distributed expectation maximization-principal component analysis monitoring scheme for the large-scale industrial process with incomplete information

Large-scale process monitoring has become a challenging issue due to the integration of sub-systems or subprocesses, leading to numerous variables with complex relationship and potential missing information in modern industrial processes. To avoid this, a distributed expectation maximization-principal component analysis scheme is proposed in this paper, where the process variables are first divided into several sub-blocks using two-layer process decomposition method, based on knowledge and generalized Dice’s coefficient. Then, the missing information of variables is estimated by expectation maximization algorithm in the principal component analysis framework, then the expectation maximization-principal component analysis method is applied for fault detection to each sub-block. Finally, the process monitoring and fault detection results are fused by Bayesian inference technique. Case studies on the Tennessee Eastman process is applied to show the effectiveness and performance of our proposed approach.