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Nicchiotti Gianluca

Nicchiotti Gianluca

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Signal processing

Machine Learning

Safety in Aerospace (ARP4761)

Systems Modelling

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Desktop: HEIA_C20.09

Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Fribourg
Boulevard de Pérolles 80, 1700 Fribourg, CH
HEIA-FR
BSc HES-SO en Génie électrique - Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Fribourg
  • Traitement du signal et d'images
  • Circuits et systèmes

2024

AI-driven electrical fast transient suppression for enhanced electromagnetic interference immunity in inductive smart proximity sensors
Scientific paper ArODES

Silvia Giangaspero, Gianluca Nicchiotti, Philippe Venier, Laurent Genilloud, Lorenzo Pirrami

Sensors,  2024, 24, 22, 7372

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Summary:

Inductive proximity sensors are relevant in position-sensing applications in many industries but, in order to be used in harsh industrial environments, they need to be immune to electromagnetic interference (EMI). The use of conventional filters to mitigate these perturbations often compromises signal bandwidth, ranging from 100 Hz to 1.6 kHz. We have exploited recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) to study the ability of neural networks (NNs) to automatically filter out EMI features. This study offers an analysis and comparison of possible NN models (a 1D convolutional NN, a recurrent NN, and a hybrid convolutional and recurrent approach) for denoising EMI-perturbed signals and proposes a final model, which is based on gated recurrent unit (GRU) layers. This network is compressed and optimised to meet memory requirements, so that in future developments it could be implemented in application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for inductive sensors. The final RNN manages to reduce noise by 70% (MSEred) while occupying 2 KB of memory.

2021

Lean Blowout Sensing and Processing via Optical Interferometry and Wavelet Analysis of Dynamic Pressure Data.
Scientific paper

Nicchiotti Gianluca

Proceedings of PHM Society European Conference, 2021 , vol.  6(1), no  11

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Characterisation and Validation of an Optical Pressure Sensor for Combustion Monitoring at Low Frequency
Scientific paper

Nicchiotti Gianluca

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2021: Turbomachinery Technical Conference, 2021 , vol.  4

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2016

Machine Learning Strategy For Fault Classification Using Only Nominal Data
Scientific paper

Nicchiotti Gianluca

Proceedings of the European Conference of the PHM Society 2016, 2016 , vol.  3, no  1

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Summary:

Machine learning methods are increasingly used for rotating machinery monitoring. Usually at set up, only data associated to an engine in a good state, the so called nominal data, are available for the machine learning phase. Nevertheless a classifier requires faulty data to be trained at identifying the causes of the anomalies and this fact has generally limited the usage of data driven approaches to fault detection tasks. The paper suggests a strategy to use machine learning methods even for fault classification purposes and diagnostics. Within the proposed framework three different machine learning methods, Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Auto Associative Neural Networks (AANN) have been implemented, tested and compared. The idea is to take into account some ‘a priori’ knowledge about the faults to be classified, to drive the behavior of the machine learning methodology (SVM or AANN or GMM) to be more or less reactive to the different faults. The indicators (features) more sensitive to each kind of fault are firstly selected on the basis of expert knowledge. For each different fault, a set of indicators is defined and computed from nominal data only. Each set is then used to produce training data for one specific fault. Such data sets are then used to train one instance of each method for each different fault. The underlying logic is that fault tuned input data is able to produce fault tuned instances of the methods. For example the instance trained with the indicators associated to a fault ‘A’ reacts more powerfully in presence of the fault ‘A’ than the others. Once an anomaly is detected, the comparison among the reactions of the different ‘fault tuned’ instances allows classifying the fault, not just to detect it. The results show best detection performances for SVM whilst AANN outperforms the other two methods for classification.

2014

G. Nicchiotti, "Health monitoring requirements elicitation via House of Quality,
Scientific paper

Nicchiotti Gianluca

Proc of 2014 IEEE Aerospace Conference., 2014 , pp.  1-15

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1999

Generalised projections: a tool for cursive handwriting normalisation.
Scientific paper

Nicchiotti Gianluca

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR '99 (Cat. No.PR00318), 1999 , pp.  729-732

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Multiresolution image registration
Scientific paper

Nicchiotti Gianluca

Proceedings., International Conference on Image Processing, 1995, 1999 , vol.  3, pp.  224-227

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Summary:

image registration; image resolution; wavelet transforms; multiresolution image registration; automatic registration procedure; multiresolution image analysis; transformations; multiresolution scales; grey level information content; banknotes; aerial stereo pairs; multispectral images; sar images; discrete wavelet transform

2024

Unsupervised learning for bearing fault identification with vibration data
Conference ArODES

Gianluca Nicchiotti, Idris Cherif, Sebastien Kuenlin

Proceedings of the 8th European Conference of the Prognositcs and Health Management Society 2024 (PHME24), 3-5 July 2024, Prague, Czech Republic

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Summary:

Machine learning methods are increasingly used for rotating machinery monitoring. Usually at system set up, only data of the machinery in healthy conditions, the so-called nominal data, are available for the machine learning phase. This type of training data enables fault detection capabilities and several methods such as Gaussian Mixture Model, One Class Support Vector Machines and Auto Associative Neural Networks (Autoencoders) have been already proved successful for this task. However, in some predictive maintenance applications, information on the type of defect may represent a key element for producing actionable information, e.g. to reduce diagnostic burden and optimize spare procurement. This requires to define classification strategies based on machine learning even in absence of data representing the behaviour of the system with defects. In this study we present an approach that uses only nominal vibration data to train an autoencoder which will enable at same time fault identification and fault classification tasks. As faulty data are expected to possess information content which is structured differently from the healthy ones their reconstruction at output will result inaccurate. In conventional anomaly detection approaches, the module of the reconstruction error, defined as the difference between output and input, is uses to determine an unusual input such as faults. The proposed approach represents a step forward as here a single autoencoder is used both for detection and classification. The underlying idea is that the components of the reconstruction error vector whose module is used to trigger fault identification in classical autoencoder approaches contain the information of the fault type. This way the analysis of the different components of the reconstruction error allows to differentiate the different types of faults. Two methods to analyse the components of the reconstruction error vector will be discussed and their respective test results will be presented Test data have been generated with a machine fault simulator to produce 3 different types of bearing defects with different load, speed and noise conditions. A dataset of about 10000 vibration signals has been used to evaluate the classification algorithms and to benchmark them with a supervised approach. The results obtained using the autoencoder method do not achieve the same performances as the conventional supervised learning algorithms. However, they proved to be 88% accurate in classification when SNR is above 0dB with the ranking based method overperforming the barycentre one.

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