A frequency-based approach for the detection and classification of structural changes using t-SNE

This work presents a structural health monitoring (SHM) approach for the detection and classification of structural changes. The proposed strategy is based on t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE), a nonlinear procedure that is able to represent the local structure of high-dimensional...

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Autores: Agis Cherta, David|||0000-0002-7283-6902, Pozo Montero, Francesc|||0000-0001-8958-6789
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/172868
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/172868
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19235097
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Fracture mechanics
Structural engineering
Embedded computer systems
Classification detection
Principal component analysis (PCA)
Structural changes
Structural health monitoring (SHM)
T-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE)
Mecànica de fractura
Enginyeria d'estructures
Sistemes incrustats (Informàtica)
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Materials i estructures
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Sumario:This work presents a structural health monitoring (SHM) approach for the detection and classification of structural changes. The proposed strategy is based on t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE), a nonlinear procedure that is able to represent the local structure of high-dimensional data in a low-dimensional space. The steps of the detection and classification procedure are: (i) the data collected are scaled using mean-centered group scaling (MCGS); (ii) then principal component analysis (PCA) is applied to reduce the dimensionality of the data set; (iii) t-SNE is applied to represent the scaled and reduced data as points in a plane defining as many clusters as different structural states; and (iv) the current structure to be diagnosed will be associated with a cluster or structural state based on three strategies: (a) the smallest point-centroid distance; (b) majority voting; and (c) the sum of the inverse distances. The combination of PCA and t-SNE improves the quality of the clusters related to the structural states. The method is evaluated using experimental data from an aluminum plate with four piezoelectric transducers (PZTs). Results are illustrated in frequency domain, and they manifest the high classification accuracy and the strong performance of this method.