Recent Advances in Machine Learning and Industrial Big Data Analysis

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Industrial Technologies".

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Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, with the rapid development of the Industrial Internet, many industrial enterprises have realized real-time sensing and integration of operation data, management data, production data, and process data, thus providing a more solid database and potential application scenarios for the industrial big data analysis methods, and also promoting the rapid development and industrial application of various machine learning methods such as ensemble learning and deep learning. In particular, automatic machine learning methods based on evolutionary optimization, such as neural architecture search (NAS) based on evolutionary computation, have received more attention. Therefore, this Special Issue will focus on the latest advances in theoretical methods and applications of machine learning and industrial big data analysis in recent years. The contents covered in this Special Issue include but are not limited to:

  1. SVM, random forests, ensemble learning methods and applications;
  2. Deep learning methods and applications;
  3. Evolutionary machine learning methods and applications;
  4. Neural architecture search and applications;
  5. Industrial image understanding and applications;
  6. Industrial big data analysis and applications;
  7. Data-driven production management and optimization;
  8. Data-driven operation management and optimization;
  9. Data-driven product quality prediction;
  10. Data-driven production process modeling and optimization;
  11. Data-driven energy management and optimization;
  12. Data-driven production planning and scheduling.

Prof. Dr. Xianpeng Wang
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A “Hardware-Friendly” Foreign Object Identification Method for Belt Conveyors Based on Improved YOLOv8
by Bingxin Luo, Ziming Kou, Cong Han and Juan Wu
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(20), 11464; https://doi.org/10.3390/app132011464 - 19 Oct 2023
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Abstract
As a crucial element in coal transportation, conveyor belts play a vital role, and monitoring their health is essential for the coal mine transportation system’s safe and efficient operation. This paper introduces a new ‘hardware-friendly’ method for monitoring belt conveyor damage, aiming to [...] Read more.
As a crucial element in coal transportation, conveyor belts play a vital role, and monitoring their health is essential for the coal mine transportation system’s safe and efficient operation. This paper introduces a new ‘hardware-friendly’ method for monitoring belt conveyor damage, aiming to address the issue of large parameters and computational requirements in existing deep learning-based foreign object detection methods and their challenges in deploying on edge devices with limited computing power. This method is tailored towards edge computing and aims to reduce the parameters and computational load of foreign object recognition networks deployed on edge computing devices. This method improves the YOLOv8 object detection network and redesigns a novel lightweight ShuffleNetV2 network as the backbone network, making the network more delicate in recognizing foreign object features while reducing redundant parameters. Additionally, a simple parameter-free attention mechanism called SimAM is introduced to further enhance recognition efficiency without imposing additional computational burden. Experimental results demonstrate that the improved foreign object recognition method achieves a detection accuracy of 95.6% with only 1.6 M parameters and 4.7 G model computational load (FLOPs). Compared to the baseline YOLOv8n, the detection accuracy has improved by 3.3 percentage points, while the number of parameters and model computational load have been reduced by 48.4% and 42.0%, respectively. These works are more friendly to edge computing devices that tend to “hardware friendly” algorithms. The improved algorithm can reduce latency in the data transmission process, enabling the accurate and timely detection of non-coal foreign objects on the conveyor belt. This provides assurance for the subsequent host computer system to promptly identify and address foreign objects, thereby ensuring the safety and efficiency of the belt conveyor. Full article
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