An Unsupervised Time Series Anomaly Detection Approach for Efficient Online Process Monitoring of Additive Manufacturing
This work addresses the need for efficient online process monitoring in additive manufacturing by enabling detection of subtle anomalies without labeled data, though it appears incremental as it builds on matrix profile techniques.
The paper tackles the problem of detecting subtle semantic anomalies in online sensor data for additive manufacturing, which existing methods miss, and proposes an unsupervised matrix profile-based algorithm that identifies defect onsets with demonstrated effectiveness on real-world data.
Online sensing plays an important role in advancing modern manufacturing. The real-time sensor signals, which can be stored as high-resolution time series data, contain rich information about the operation status. One of its popular usages is online process monitoring, which can be achieved by effective anomaly detection from the sensor signals. However, most existing approaches either heavily rely on labeled data for training supervised models, or are designed to detect only extreme outliers, thus are ineffective at identifying subtle semantic off-track anomalies to capture where new regimes or unexpected routines start. To address this challenge, we propose an matrix profile-based unsupervised anomaly detection algorithm that captures fabrication cycle similarity and performs semantic segmentation to precisely identify the onset of defect anomalies in additive manufacturing. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by the experiments on real-world sensor data.