Seshu K. Damarla | Searcharxiv

arXiv2026

Contrastive Siamese Representation Learning for Predictive Maintenance of Electrical Submersible Pumps

Electrical submersible pumps (ESPs) are essential in offshore oil production, where unexpected failures can result in significant operational and financial losses. Accurate predictive maintenance for ESP systems remains challenging due to nonlinear operating conditions, class imbalance, and variability among pump units. To address these issues, this study presents a fault diagnosis framework that incorporates class imbalance awareness by employing Siamese contrastive representation learning and prior-corrected k-nearest neighbor (KNN) classification. The method first extracts discriminative features relevant to fault detection from vibration-domain indicators and engineered harmonic relationships. A Siamese neural network is trained with class-balanced contrastive pairs to construct an embedding space that clusters samples of the same fault type and separates different fault classes. To further mitigate class imbalance during classification, a prior-corrected distance-weighted KNN is applied. The framework is validated using a Leave-One-ESP-Out (LOEO) strategy to evaluate generalization to previously unseen ESP units. Experimental results indicate that the proposed framework delivers robust and consistent fault classification performance under realistic industrial conditions, supporting its potential for reliable predictive maintenance and intelligent ESP system monitoring.

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arXiv2026

Optimal Transport Image Representation and Deep Covariance Alignment (CORAL) for Control Valve Stiction Detection

Control valve stiction is a common cause of unwanted oscillations and poor control-loop performance in industrial processes. Data-driven methods can automatically detect stiction, but models trained purely on simulated data often struggle to generalize to real industrial control loops due to domain shift. To bridge this gap, this work propose a novel stiction detection methodology that combines optimal transport (OT) imaging technique with deep correlation alignment (Deep CORAL) algorithm. Closed loop signals: controller output and process variable are converted into two-dimensional OT images. These images capture the dynamic behaviour of control loops. The proposed methodology includes a convolutional neural network (CNN) encoder (or feature extractor) trained to learn domain-invariant representations by optimizing a combined objective: a cross-entropy loss on labeled simulation data and a Deep CORAL (covariance-alignment) loss between simulation data and unlabeled target-domain industrial data. Downstream classifiers trained on the domain-invariant target features were evaluated on an independent test set of 20 benchmark loops from industrial stiction data benchmark. The proposed methodology successfully diagnosed 18 out of the 20 loops and achieved100% recall across all 13 stiction cases, an accuracy of 90.00% and an F1-score of 92.86%. Compared to standard baseline approach (hand-crafted features-based method), the proposed methodology significantly mitigates domain shift, providing robust, highly reliable stiction detection for real-world industrial control loops.

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