Due to advanced monitoring technologies including the plug-in of the cyber and physical layers on the Internet, cyber-physical systems are becoming more vulnerable than ever to cyberthreats leading to possible damage of the system. Consequently, many researchers have devoted to studying detection and identification of such threats in order to mitigate their drawbacks. Among used tools, Machine Learning (ML) has become dominant in the field due to many usability characteristics including the blackbox models availability. In this context, this paper is dedicated to the detection of cyberattacks in Smart Grid (SG) networks which uses industrial control systems (ICS), through the integration of ML models assembled on a small scale. More precisely, it therefore aims to study an electric traction substation system used for the railway industry. The main novelty of our contribution lies in the study of the behaviour of more realistic data than the traditional studies previously shown in the state of the art literature by investigating even more realistic types of attacks. It also emulates data analysis and a larger feature space under most commonly used connectivity protocols in today's industry such as S7Comm and Modbus.

The clean energy conversion characteristics of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) have given rise to many applications, particularly in transportation. Unfortunately, the commercial application of PEMFCs is hampered by the early deterioration and low durability of the cells. In this case, accurate real-time condition monitoring plays an important role in extending the lifespan of PEMFCs through accurate planning of maintenance tasks. Accordingly, among the widely used modeling tools such as model-driven and data-driven, machine learning has received much attention and has been extensively studied in the literature. Small-scale machine learning (SML) and Deep Learning (DL) are subcategories of machine learning that have been exploited so far. In this context and since SML usually contains non-expansive approximators, this study was dedicated to improving its feature representations for better predictions. Therefore, a recurrent expansion experiment was conducted for several rounds to investigate a linear regression model under time series prognosis of PEMFCs. The results revealed that the prediction performance of SML tools under stationary conditions could be further improved.

The increase in electricity theft has become one of the main concerns of power distribution networks. Indeed, electricity theft could not only lead to financial losses, but also leads to reputation damage by reducing the quality of supply. With advanced sensing technologies of metering infrastructures, data collection of electricity consumption enables data-driven methods to emerge in such non-technical loss detections as an alternative to traditional experience-based human-centric approaches. In this context, such fraud prediction problems are generally a thematic of missing patterns, class imbalance, and higher level of cardinality where there are many possibilities that a single feature can assume. Therefore, this article is introduced specifically to solve data representation problem and increase the sparseness between different data classes. As a result, deeper representations than deep learning networks are introduced to repeatedly merge the learning models themselves into a more complex architecture in a sort of recurrent expansion. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed recurrent expansion of deep learning (REDL) approach, a realistic dataset of electricity theft is involved. Consequently, REDL has achieved excellent data mapping results proven by both visualization and numerical metrics and shows the ability of separating different classes with higher performance. Another important REDL feature of outliers correction has been also discovered in this study. Finally, comparison to some recent works also proved superiority of REDL model.

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) are a key challenger for the world’s future clean and renewable energy solution. Yet, fuel cells are susceptible to operating conditions and hydrogen impurities, leading to performance loss over time in service. Hence, performance degradation prediction is gaining attention recently for fuel cell system reliability. In this work, we present a knowledge transfer approach for online voltage drop prediction. A dual-path convolution neural network is proposed to extract linearity and non-linearity from historical data and performs multi-steps ahead prediction with uncertainty quantification. Online voltage prediction is then evaluated with and without knowledge transfer using two different PEMFC datasets. Results indicate that our proposed approach with transfer knowledge can predict the voltage drop accurately with a small uncertainty range compared to the conventional approach.

Digital twins have transformed the industrial world by changing the development phase of a product or the use of equipment. With the digital twin, the object’s evolution data allows us to anticipate and optimize its performance. Healthcare is in the midst of a digital transition towards personalized, predictive, preventive, and participatory medicine. The digital twin is one of the key tools of this change. In this work, DT is proposed for the diagnosis of breast cancer based on breast skin temperature. Research has focused on thermography as a non-invasive scanning solution for breast cancer diagnosis. However, body temperature is influenced by many factors, such as breast anatomy, physiological functions, blood pressure, etc. The proposed DT updates the bio-heat model’s temperature using the data collected by temperature sensors and complementary data from smart devices. Consequently, the proposed DT is personalized using the collected data to reflect the person’s behavior with whom it is connected.