arXiv Machine Learning

Geometric Attractor Monitoring: A Robust and Frugal Framework for Multi-modal Industrial Robotic Cycles

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 7

A Data-Driven Framework for Unsupervised Monitoring of Transmission Systems Using End-of-Line Testing Data: A Case Study at Ford Motor Company

The paper presents a two‑stage multivariate monitoring framework for high‑dimensional, temporally dependent data from end‑of‑line testing in automotive manufacturing. Stage one cleans and aligns the data, while stage two applies nonlinear dimensionality reduction and a control‑chart‑based anomaly detection procedure that can operate in unsupervised or supervised modes. Applied to Ford Motor Company production data, the framework outperforms the existing model, raising accuracy from 0.50 to 0.625, recall from 0.30 to 1.00, and F1 score from 0.429 to 0.769.

By Mohammad N. Bisheh, Mehrdad Moradi, Parinaz Farajiparvar, Colin Brady, Rajesh Gupta, Xueling Li, Javad Navaei, Milad Parvaneh, Kamran Paynabar
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

FedCMAPSS: A Benchmark for Federated Learning in Remaining Useful Life Estimation

FedCMAPSS is a new benchmark for federated learning applied to remaining useful life (RUL) estimation, built on the NASA C‑MAPSS dataset. It defines five standardized tasks that mimic real‑world industrial scenarios, from ideal IID conditions to highly heterogeneous data distributions. The paper evaluates state‑of‑the‑art federated optimization algorithms across multiple neural architectures, providing reproducible baselines and publicly available code and data splits.

By Amelia Sorrenti, Matteo Pennisi, Concetto Spampinato, Simone Palazzo
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 16

Robust Fault Detection in Mechanical Multimodal Time Series via Self-Supervised Cross-Modal Reconstruction

The paper introduces a multimodal anomaly detection framework that uses cross‑modal reconstruction of heterogeneous time‑series sensor data to detect faults in industrial systems. By learning to reconstruct each modality from the others, the method leverages complementary information across sensing channels without requiring explicit temporal alignment or identical sampling rates. An adaptive test‑time thresholding mechanism further improves robustness to distribution shifts caused by changing operating conditions, as demonstrated by strong fault detection performance in three industrial case studies, especially under out‑of‑distribution regimes.

By Magnus Munk Jensen, Dorte Hammersh{\o}i, Rafa{\l} Wi\'sniewski, Olga Fink
arXiv AI
Oct 26

Adaptive World-Models for Anomaly Recognition (AWARE): A Framework for Robot Dynamics Prediction and Introspection

The paper introduces AWARE, a world‑model framework that detects anomalies in robotic systems using only external camera data for dynamics estimation and state prediction. Tested on 240 real‑world crane trajectories, AWARE outperforms the best baseline by 26% in anomaly classification under noisy, camera‑only conditions. It also decodes dynamics parameters to pinpoint fault sources, achieving 88% accuracy in localizing motor degradation.

By Luke Beddow, George Mavroghenis, Rodrigo Chacon Quesada, Kamil Dreczkowski, Cong Sun, Jiankai Wang, Oscar Kwong-Fai Pang, Antoine Cully
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

ISP-AD: A Large-Scale Real-World Dataset for Advancing Industrial Anomaly Detection with Synthetic and Real Defects

The paper introduces ISP-AD, the largest publicly available industrial anomaly detection dataset, featuring both synthetic and real defects from a factory floor. It focuses on challenging, small, weakly contrasted surface defects within highly variable structured patterns, addressing the bias of existing datasets toward ideal imaging conditions. Experiments demonstrate that even a small amount of weakly labeled real defects improves model generalization and that synthetic defects can serve as a useful cold‑start baseline for scalable training.

By Paul J. Krassnig, Dieter P. Gruber