Reinforcement and deep reinforcement learning-based solutions for machine maintenance planning, scheduling policies, and optimization

O Ogunfowora, H Najjaran - Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Systems and machines undergo various failure modes that result in machine health
degradation, so maintenance actions are required to restore them back to a state where they …

Deep reinforcement learning for machine scheduling: Methodology, the state-of-the-art, and future directions

M Khadivi, T Charter, M Yaghoubi, M Jalayer… - Computers & Industrial …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine scheduling aims to optimally assign jobs to a single or a group of
machines while meeting manufacturing rules as well as job specifications. Optimizing the …

Generative convolutional monitoring method for online flooding recognition in packed towers

Y Liu, Y Jiang, Z Gao, K Liu, Y Yao - Journal of the Taiwan Institute of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Data-driven methods play an important role in monitoring the liquid flooding
process for ensuring the efficient and safe operation of packed towers. However, their online …

Anomaly detection in automated fibre placement: Learning with data limitations

A Ghamisi, T Charter, L Ji, M Rivard, G Lund… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Conventional defect detection systems in Automated Fibre Placement (AFP)
typically rely on end-to-end supervised learning, necessitating a substantial number of …

Imbalanced fault diagnosis using conditional wasserstein generative adversarial networks with switchable normalization

W Fu, Y Chen, H Li, X Chen, B Chen - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mechanical equipment usually runs under normal condition (NC), making it prohibitively
challenging to collect sufficient fault samples and the dataset is prone to imbalanced …

Intelligent condition monitoring of industrial plants: An overview of methodologies and uncertainty management strategies

M Ahang, T Charter, O Ogunfowora, M Khadivi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Condition monitoring plays a significant role in the safety and reliability of modern industrial
systems. Artificial intelligence (AI) approaches are gaining attention from academia and …

An adaptive few-shot fault diagnosis method based on virtual samples generated by fault characteristics of rotating machines

P Wu, G Yu, Q Yu, P Wang, Y Han, B Ma - Engineering Applications of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The existing intelligent diagnostic methods based on the machine learning achieve good
diagnostic results under the condition of large amount of the failure data available. However …

Constrained Adversarial Learning and its applicability to Automated Software Testing: a systematic review

J Vitorino, T Dias, T Fonseca, E Maia… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Every novel technology adds hidden vulnerabilities ready to be exploited by a growing
number of cyber-attacks. Automated software testing can be a promising solution to quickly …

Rotor fault diagnosis of centrifugal pumps in nuclear power plants based on CWGAN-GP-CNN for imbalanced dataset

D Cui, R Zhou, H Li, R Hua, Z Chen, H Liu… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2025 - Elsevier
As a crucial device in nuclear power plants, centrifugal pumps undertake the critical role of
cooling water circulation. Centrifugal pump rotor misalignment and unbalanced faults cause …

A numerical simulation enhanced multi-task integrated learning network for fault detection in rotation vector reducers

H Wang, S Wang, R Yang, J Xiang - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) models play an important role in mechanical fault
diagnosis. Generally, it is difficult to collect relative complete fault samples, which limits the …