CAREER: Machine Learning for Data-Driven Fault-Tolerant Control of Complex Systems

职业：用于复杂系统数据驱动容错控制的机器学习

• 批准号: 2143268
• 负责人: Yuncheng Du
• 金额: $ 59.43万
• 依托单位: Clarkson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2143268&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Machine; Learning; Data; Driven

This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project will create new knowledge about the dynamic behavior and control of complex systems; specifically, how to predict rare deleterious events in complex systems, and how to control these systems when faults occur to achieve a desired performance. Complex systems are networks comprising many collaborating elements that continuously interact with each other in a nonlinear and counterintuitive manner; examples include cybersecurity, manufacturing processes, automated transportation infrastructure, medical devices, and many others relevant to our well-being. Faults in these systems are malfunctions, such as cyber-attack or sensor failure, that break security, degrade system functionality, and cause safety concerns and economic losses. Control of these systems is challenging because the dynamic behavior of the ensemble is intrinsically difficult to predict. This award supports fundamental research to build a “fault-aware” control framework to study how interactions among individual elements produce the collective’s dynamics and how to alleviate the effect of faults on complex systems. To develop and test the control framework, a failing heart managed by a ventricular assist device will be used as the foundation to (i) detect device faults such as thrombosis and suction that jeopardize the survival of heart failure patients and (ii) automatically adjust the operation of the device under faults to improve the patient quality of life. The educational and outreach plan will focus on promoting active and life-long learning and engaging and training students at various levels, including veterans transitioning to civilian life, in emerging industries and transdisciplinary skills.Using machine learning as the backbone, the objective of this research is to create a data-driven control strategy that regulates and maintains the system’s homeostasis following the onset of faults, while ensuring the system continues to operate in a seamless, continuous manner. This research will fill the knowledge gap for the supervision and control of complex systems when the governing phenomena are unknown and when first principle models are not readily attainable. The data-driven strategy will also overcome design limitations. Designing complex systems, such as ventricular assist devices, based on first principle models is costly, time consuming, and requires extensive expert knowledge to build application-specific models based on ubiquitous assumptions that are difficult to satisfy in practice. This research project will integrate data analytics, control theory, and machine learning into a unified framework with three innovative aspects: developing machine learning methods to discover symptomatic fingerprints of faults directly from data for real-time fault diagnosis; building an online adaptive modeling paradigm to predict performance-related variables that are not directly measurable due to economic considerations or technical constraints; designing a fault-tolerant controller to improve the system’s performance, while ensuring all operational constraints are met. In addition to its application to ventricular assist devices, this framework can be applied to protect computer systems from digital attacks, improve manufacturing efficiency, and address safety issues in automated transportation infrastructure and medical devices, leading to compelling societal and economic benefits.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该教师早期职业发展（CAREER）项目将创造有关复杂系统的动态行为和控制的新知识；具体来说，如何预测复杂系统中罕见的有害事件，以及如何在发生故障时控制这些系统以实现所需的性能。复杂的系统网络由许多协作元素组成，这些元素以非线性和违反直觉的方式持续相互作用；示例包括网络安全、制造流程、自动化交通基础设施、医疗设备以及与我们的福祉相关的许多其他元素。故障，例如网络攻击或传感器故障，会破坏安全性、降低系统功能并导致安全问题和经济损失，因为整体的动态行为本质上很难预测。建立一个“故障感知”控制框架，以研究各个元件之间的相互作用如何产生集体的动态，以及如何减轻故障对复杂系统的影响。为了开发和测试控制框架，由心室辅助装置管理的衰竭心脏将被开发。用作 (i) 检测的基础血栓和抽吸等危及心力衰竭患者生存的设备故障，以及（ii）在故障下自动调整设备的运行以提高患者的生活质量。教育和推广计划将侧重于促进积极和终生的生活质量。学习、吸引和培训各个级别的学生，包括过渡到平民生活的退伍军人、新兴产业和跨学科技能。这项研究的目标是以机器学习为支柱，创建一种数据驱动的控制策略，调节和维护系统的故障发生后的稳态，同时确保系统继续以无缝、连续的方式运行。这项研究将填补在控制现象未知和第一原理模型不易建立时监督和控制复杂系统的知识空白。数据驱动策略还将克服设计限制，例如基于第一原理模型的心室辅助装置，成本高昂、耗时，并且需要广泛的专业知识来构建基于普遍假设的特定应用模型。很难满足该研究项目将数据分析、控制理论和机器学习整合到一个统一的框架中，具有三个创新方面：开发机器学习方法，直接从数据中发现故障的症状指纹，以进行实时故障诊断；范式来预测由于经济考虑或技术限制而无法直接测量的性能相关变量；设计容错控制器以提高系统性能，同时确保满足所有操作限制除了应用于心室辅助装置外，该框架可用于保护计算机系统免受数字攻击，提高制造效率，并解决自动化交通基础设施和医疗设备中的安全问题，从而带来引人注目的社会和经济效益。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和技术进行评估，被认为值得支持。更广泛的影响审查标准。