A Rapid Classification of Cross-Contaminations in Aviation Oil Using Impedance-Driven Supervised Machine Learning

Publication date: 30 Set 2024

JournalSource: OPENALEXOpenAlex type: articleClosed Access
Authors: Chiara De Pascali, Daniele Bellisario, M.A. Signore, Elisa Sciurti, Antonio Vincenzo Radogna, Luca Francioso

Real-time monitoring of lube oil plays a crucial role in ensuring optimal machinery performance, preventing failures, and facilitating timely maintenance strategies. The approach proposed in this work, based on impedance spectroscopy and supervised machine learning (ML), addresses this need by a novel solution to a multiclass classification problem of cross-contaminations in aviation lubricant. Impedance measurements were performed at room temperature by immersing a microfabricated sensor in 16 aged oil samples containing increasing concentrations of water and aviation fuel. Two datasets were constructed: the first based on impedance components spectra and the second based on dissipation factor spectra. A data pre-processing and augmentation method was proposed for generating synthetic examples from the measured data. Both datasets were independently used to train three supervised classifiers, whose performance was evaluated based on three different approaches of dataset split ratio and k-fold cross-validation. The 1-nearest neighbors (NN) classifier proved to be the most effective in reducing false positives (FPs), false negatives (FNs), and computational running time. The best results were obtained by employing a split ratio of 60:40 and threefold cross-validation scheme on the impedance components-based dataset, yielding an accuracy of 99.8%.

Origin
IEEE Sensors Journal
Volume
24
Issue
22
Pages
38209-38221
Cited by
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