Spacecraft telemetry data monitoring by dimensionality reduction techniques

In this paper, we consider a "data-driven" anomaly detection framework for spacecraft systems using dimensionality reduction and reconstruction techniques. This method first learns a mapping from the original data space to a low dimensional space and its reverse mapping by applying linear or nonlinear dimensionality reduction algorithms to a normal training data set. After the training, it applies the learned pair of mappings to a test data set to obtain a reconstructed data set, and then evaluate the reconstruction errors. We will show the results of applying several representative linear and nonlinear dimensionality reduction algorithms with this framework to the electrical power subsystem (EPS) data of actual artificial satellites.