Purpose-A cost-effective way to achieve fuel economy is to reinforce positive driving behaviour.Driving behaviour can be controlled if drivers can be alerted for behaviour that results in poor fuel economy.Fuel consum...Purpose-A cost-effective way to achieve fuel economy is to reinforce positive driving behaviour.Driving behaviour can be controlled if drivers can be alerted for behaviour that results in poor fuel economy.Fuel consumption must be tracked and monitored instantaneously rather than tracking average fuel economy for the entire trip duration.A single-step application of machine learning(ML)is not sufficient to model prediction of instantaneous fuel consumption and detection of anomalous fuel economy.The study designs an ML pipeline to track and monitor instantaneous fuel economy and detect anomalies.Design/methodology/approach-This research iteratively applies different variations of a two-step ML pipeline to the driving dataset for hatchback cars.The first step addresses the problem of accurate measurement and prediction of fuel economy using time series driving data,and the second step detects abnormal fuel economy in relation to contextual information.Long short-term memory autoencoder method learns and uses the most salient features of time series data to build a regression model.The contextual anomaly is detected by following two approaches,kernel quantile estimator and one-class support vector machine.The kernel quantile estimator sets dynamic threshold for detecting anomalous behaviour.Any error beyond a threshold is classified as an anomaly.The one-class support vector machine learns training error pattern and applies the model to test data for anomaly detection.The two-step ML pipeline is further modified by replacing long short term memory autoencoder with gated recurrent network autoencoder,and the performance of both models is compared.The speed recommendations and feedback are issued to the driver based on detected anomalies for controlling aggressive behaviour.Findings-A composite long short-term memory autoencoder was compared with gated recurrent unit autoencoder.Both models achieve prediction accuracy within a range of 98%-100%for prediction as a first step.Recall and accuracy metrics for anomaly det展开更多
文摘Purpose-A cost-effective way to achieve fuel economy is to reinforce positive driving behaviour.Driving behaviour can be controlled if drivers can be alerted for behaviour that results in poor fuel economy.Fuel consumption must be tracked and monitored instantaneously rather than tracking average fuel economy for the entire trip duration.A single-step application of machine learning(ML)is not sufficient to model prediction of instantaneous fuel consumption and detection of anomalous fuel economy.The study designs an ML pipeline to track and monitor instantaneous fuel economy and detect anomalies.Design/methodology/approach-This research iteratively applies different variations of a two-step ML pipeline to the driving dataset for hatchback cars.The first step addresses the problem of accurate measurement and prediction of fuel economy using time series driving data,and the second step detects abnormal fuel economy in relation to contextual information.Long short-term memory autoencoder method learns and uses the most salient features of time series data to build a regression model.The contextual anomaly is detected by following two approaches,kernel quantile estimator and one-class support vector machine.The kernel quantile estimator sets dynamic threshold for detecting anomalous behaviour.Any error beyond a threshold is classified as an anomaly.The one-class support vector machine learns training error pattern and applies the model to test data for anomaly detection.The two-step ML pipeline is further modified by replacing long short term memory autoencoder with gated recurrent network autoencoder,and the performance of both models is compared.The speed recommendations and feedback are issued to the driver based on detected anomalies for controlling aggressive behaviour.Findings-A composite long short-term memory autoencoder was compared with gated recurrent unit autoencoder.Both models achieve prediction accuracy within a range of 98%-100%for prediction as a first step.Recall and accuracy metrics for anomaly det