Fault detection of continuous casting process using kernel PCA

Viewing to monitoring the continuous casting process, a nonlinear fault detection method based on kernel principal component analysis (KPCA) was introduced. KPCA can efficiently compute principal components in high-dimensional feature spaces by means of integral operators and nonlinear kernel functions, which is to first map the input space into a feature space via nonlinear mapping and then to compute the principal components in that feature space. Based on T-2 and SPE charts in feature space, principal component analysis(PCA)can be used to detect faults.. The simulation results show that the proposed approach effectively captured the nonlinear relationship in the process variables and showed superior process monitoring performance compared to linear PCA.