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Physics-informed autoencoder for feature extraction from multidimensional sensor measurement data

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Cristina Gentili *
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Christofer Hierold
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Cosmin Roman
DOI:10.1007/s10489-025-06892-6delete
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Abstract

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In this work, we propose a physics-informed autoencoder, named PIAE, to extract features and reduce the dimensionality of sensor measurement data. This data consists of transistor transfer characteristics, that are drain current vs gate voltage measurements ( $${I_D}$$ - $${V_{GS}}$$ ) of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNT-FETs) acquired during several gas-sensing experiments. The encoder of the PIAE is trained—via an additional loss term—to output four physically interpretable key features. These features correspond to typical transistor parameters: threshold voltage, subthreshold swing, transconductance, and ON-state current. The decoder module then reconstructs the CNT-FET transfer characteristics from these four key features. We evaluated our method on five different gas measurement runs performed with three distinct CNT-FET devices. The PIAE outperforms both a four-component principal component analysis and a four-parameter compact model in terms of reconstruction accuracy, achieving an average improvement of approximately 50% in the median root mean square reconstruction error. Moreover, the PIAE reaches a reconstruction accuracy comparable to that of a standard autoencoder while providing physical interpretability of the extracted features, opening new opportunities for sensor signal processing and analysis.
Keywords:
Physics-informed autoencoder
Feature extraction
Dimensionality reduction
Feature engineering
Sensor signal analysis
Transistor transfer characteristics
Carbon nanotube field effect transistor

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Applied Intelligence
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Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
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