STGLR: A Spacecraft Anomaly Detection Method Based on Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning

Anomalies frequently occur during the operation of spacecraft in orbit, and studying anomaly detection methods is crucial to ensure the normal operation of spacecraft. Due to the complexity of spacecraft structures, telemetry data possess characteristics such as high dimensionality, complexity, and...

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Main Authors: Yi Lai, Ye Zhu, Li Li, Qing Lan, Yizheng Zuo
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description Anomalies frequently occur during the operation of spacecraft in orbit, and studying anomaly detection methods is crucial to ensure the normal operation of spacecraft. Due to the complexity of spacecraft structures, telemetry data possess characteristics such as high dimensionality, complexity, and large scale. Existing methods frequently ignore or fail to explicitly extract the correlation between variables, and due to the lack of prior knowledge, it is difficult to obtain the initial relationship of variables. To address these issues, this paper proposes a new method, namely spatio-temporal graph learning reconstruction (STGLR), for spacecraft anomaly detection. STGLR employs a dynamic graph learning module to infer the initial relationships among telemetry variables. It then constructs a spatio-temporal feature extraction module to capture complex spatio-temporal dependencies among variables, leveraging a graph sample and aggregation network to learn embedded features and incorporating an attention mechanism to adaptively select salient features. Finally, a reconstruction module is used to learn the latent representations of features, capturing the normal patterns in telemetry data and achieving anomaly detection. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, experiments were conducted on two public spacecraft datasets, and the results demonstrate that the performance of the STGLR method surpasses existing anomaly detection methods, with an average F1 score exceeding 0.97.
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spelling doaj-art-2c5d962a331a43db8089a9bcc7628c952025-01-24T13:48:27ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202025-01-0125231010.3390/s25020310STGLR: A Spacecraft Anomaly Detection Method Based on Spatio-Temporal Graph LearningYi Lai0Ye Zhu1Li Li2Qing Lan3Yizheng Zuo4Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201304, ChinaInnovation Academy for Microsatellites of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201304, ChinaInnovation Academy for Microsatellites of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201304, ChinaInnovation Academy for Microsatellites of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201304, ChinaInnovation Academy for Microsatellites of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201304, ChinaAnomalies frequently occur during the operation of spacecraft in orbit, and studying anomaly detection methods is crucial to ensure the normal operation of spacecraft. Due to the complexity of spacecraft structures, telemetry data possess characteristics such as high dimensionality, complexity, and large scale. Existing methods frequently ignore or fail to explicitly extract the correlation between variables, and due to the lack of prior knowledge, it is difficult to obtain the initial relationship of variables. To address these issues, this paper proposes a new method, namely spatio-temporal graph learning reconstruction (STGLR), for spacecraft anomaly detection. STGLR employs a dynamic graph learning module to infer the initial relationships among telemetry variables. It then constructs a spatio-temporal feature extraction module to capture complex spatio-temporal dependencies among variables, leveraging a graph sample and aggregation network to learn embedded features and incorporating an attention mechanism to adaptively select salient features. Finally, a reconstruction module is used to learn the latent representations of features, capturing the normal patterns in telemetry data and achieving anomaly detection. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, experiments were conducted on two public spacecraft datasets, and the results demonstrate that the performance of the STGLR method surpasses existing anomaly detection methods, with an average F1 score exceeding 0.97.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/2/310anomaly detectionspacecraft telemetry datadynamic graph learningGraphSAGEvariational auto-encoder
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Ye Zhu
Li Li
Qing Lan
Yizheng Zuo
STGLR: A Spacecraft Anomaly Detection Method Based on Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning
Sensors
anomaly detection
spacecraft telemetry data
dynamic graph learning
GraphSAGE
variational auto-encoder
title STGLR: A Spacecraft Anomaly Detection Method Based on Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning
title_full STGLR: A Spacecraft Anomaly Detection Method Based on Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning
title_fullStr STGLR: A Spacecraft Anomaly Detection Method Based on Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning
title_full_unstemmed STGLR: A Spacecraft Anomaly Detection Method Based on Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning
title_short STGLR: A Spacecraft Anomaly Detection Method Based on Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning
title_sort stglr a spacecraft anomaly detection method based on spatio temporal graph learning
topic anomaly detection
spacecraft telemetry data
dynamic graph learning
GraphSAGE
variational auto-encoder
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/2/310
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