Deep Learning-Based Ground Vibration Monitoring: Reinforcement Learning and RNN-CNN Approach

This letter studies deep learning-based efficient ground vibration monitoring systems. In this work, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are adopted to effectively deal with practical issues of data collection and classification. Specifically, we develop a novel energy-efficient data collection scheme by adopting deep Q-network-based reinforcement learning. Also, we propose an enhanced joint recurrent neural network (RNN) and convolutional neural network (CNN) approach for ground vibration classification. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated using real-world ground vibration data. The experimental results show that the proposed classification scheme outperforms the best existing scheme with CNN by more than 13% in terms of classification accuracy. It is also shown that the proposed energy management scheme can improve the accuracy of the proposed ground vibration monitoring system by 7.6% over the comparable scheme using equal power allocation.