Intelligent Fault Diagnosis in Lead-zinc Smelting Process

According to the fault characteristic of the imperial smelting process (ISP), a novel intelligent integrated fault diagnostic system is developed. In the system fuzzy neural networks are utilized to extract fault symptom and expert system is employed for effective fault diagnosis of the process. Furthermore, fuzzy abductive inference is introduced to diagnose multiple faults. Feasibility of the proposed system is demonstrated through a pilot plant case study.     

An expert system for engine fault diagnosis: development and application

The mass production and wider use of automobiles and the incorporation of complex electronic technologies all indicate that the control of faults should be given an integral part of engine design and usage. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) technology is widely suggested for systematic diagnosis of faults where the amount of well-defined diagnosis knowledge is vast and the sequence of steps required to identify the fault is very long. This article describes on an expert system application for automotive engines. A new prototype named EXEDS (expert engine diagnosis system) has been developed using KnowledgePro, an expert system development tool, and run on a PC. The purpose of the prototype is to assist auto mechanics in fault diagnosis of engines by providing systematic and step-by-step analysis of failure symptoms and offering maintenance or service advice. The result of this development is expected to introduce a systematic and intelligent method in engine diagnosis and mai ntenance environments.     

基于RS与LS_SVM的密闭鼓风炉故障诊断

针对密闭鼓风炉故障信息的复杂性和不完备性,建立了基于粗糙集（RS）和最小二乘支持向量机（LS_SVM）相结合的故障诊断模型。首先运用等频率划分法对故障诊断数据中的连续属性进行离散化,然后采用粗糙集理论进行故障诊断决策系统约简,获得最优决策系统。将约简结果与LS_SVM相结合,建立了故障诊断模型。实验结果表明,该模型提高了诊断效率和判断准确率。     

基于粗糙集理论的故障诊断系统知识库设计

故障诊断是与有效决策密切相关的复杂而困难的问题。粗糙集理论可以有效地分析、处理不完备信息。知识库是整个故障诊断系统的核心,利用基于粗糙集的知识约简和决策规则提取算法,将柴油机故障信息值进行约简,求出其决策规则。知识库由事实库和规则库组成。在知识库中采用链表数据结构,以数据文件形式存储,完成知识库设计的程序。采用粗糙集方法进行故障条件属性约简十分有效,得到简化的决策规则,使得知识库的设计更加方便快捷。     

Human-like fault diagnosis using a neural network implementation of plausibility and relevance

In real systems, fault diagnosis is performed by a human diagnostician, and it encounters complex knowledge associations, both for normal and faulty behaviour of the target system. The human diagnostician relies on deep knowledge about the structure and the behaviour of the system, along with shallow knowledge on fault-to-manifestation patterns acquired from practice. This paper proposes a general approach to embed deep and shallow knowledge in neural network models for fault diagnosis by abduction, using neural sites for logical aggregation of manifestations and faults. All types of abduction problems were considered. The abduction proceeds by plausibility and relevance criteria multiply applied. The neural network implements plausibility by feed-forward links between manifestations and faults, and relevance by competition links between faults. Abduction by plausibility and relevance is also used for decision on the next best test along the diagnostic refinement. A case study on an installation in a rolling mill plant is presented.     

基于粗糙集理论的电力变压器故障诊断方法研究

为了能从完备信息中得出正确的诊断结论,并能从不完整的信息中得出满意的诊断结果,提高故障识别率,提出一种基于粗糙集理论的电力变压器故障诊断方法,给出了粗糙集的基本概念、约简计算方法和约简过程,并给出了故障诊断原理和诊断实例．实验结果表明,该方法是有效的,达到了预期目的,为电力变压器故障诊断提供了新的思路,对其他电气设备的故障诊断具有参考价值。     

概率粗糙集模型在机械故障诊断中的应用

机械故障产生的机理比较多且表现形式具有不确定性,概率粗糙集模型弥补了Pawlak粗糙集模型在解决知识不确定性决策问题时的不足。概率粗糙集模型能充分利用近似边界区域提供的统计信息,并能对给定概念一个更完整的刻画,因而可以提取带有确定因子的决策规则。首先论述了概率粗糙集模型并引进了概率粗糙集模型的属性约简,然后介绍了在机械故障诊断中有关Bayes决策问题的概率粗糙集模型,最后用一个实例说明概率粗糙集模型在机械故障诊断中的应用。     

Intelligent fault diagnosis of synchronous generators

Condition based maintenance (CBM) requires continuous monitoring of mechanical/electrical signals and various operating conditions of the machine to provide maintenance decisions. However, for expensive complex systems (e.g. aerospace), inducing faults and capturing the intelligence about the system is not possible. This necessitates to have a small working model (SWM) to learn about faults and capture the intelligence about the system, and then scale up the fault models to monitor the condition of the complex/prototype system, without ever injecting faults in the prototype system. We refer to this approach as scalable fault models.We check the effectiveness of the proposed approach using a 3 kVA synchronous generator as SWM and a 5 kVA synchronous generator as the prototype system. In this work, we identify and remove the system-dependent features using a nuisance attribute projection (NAP) algorithm to model a system-independent feature space to make the features robust across the two different capacity synchronous generators. The frequency domain statistical features are extracted from the current signals of the synchronous generators. Classification and regression tree (CART) is used as a back-end classifier. NAP improves the performance of the baseline system by 2.05%, 5.94%, and 9.55% for the R, Y, and B phase faults respectively.     

RMINE: A Rough Set Based Data Mining Prototype for the Reasoning of Incomplete Data in Condition-based Fault Diagnosis

Condition-based fault diagnosis aims at identifying the root cause of a system malfunction from vast amount of condition-based monitoring information and knowledge. The needs of extracting knowledge from vast amount of information have spurred the interest in data mining, which can be categorized into two stages data preparation and knowledge extraction. It has been established that most of the current data mining approaches to fault diagnosis focus on the latter stage. In reality, condition-based monitoring data may, most of the time, contain incomplete, or missing data, which have an adverse effect on the knowledge or diagnostic rules extracted. Several approaches to deal with missing data can be found in literature. Unfortunately, all of which have serious drawbacks. In this paper, a novel approach to the treatment of incomplete data is proposed for the data preparation stage, while a rough set based approach has been developed to pre-process the data for the extraction of diagnostic rules. The two-stage data mining technique is implemented into a prototype system, RMINE, which also possesses a self-learning ability to cope with the changing condition-based data. A real industrial case study of a pump system is used to demonstrate the fault diagnosis process using RMINE. The result has shown the potential of RMINE as a general data mining prototype to condition-based fault diagnosis.     

A model-based approach to robot fault diagnosis

This paper presents a model-based approach to online robotic fault diagnosis: First Priority Diagnostic Engine (FPDE). The first principle of FPDE is that a robot is assumed to work well as long as its key variables are within an acceptable range. FPDE consists of four modules: the bounds generator, interval filter, component-based fault reasoner (core of FPDE) and fault reaction. The bounds generator calculates bounds of robot parameters based on interval computation and manufacturing standards. The interval filter provides characteristic values in each predetermined interval to denote corresponding faults. The core of FPDE carries out a two-stage diagnostic process: first it detects whether a robot is faulty by checking the relevant parameters of its end-effector, if a fault is detected it then narrows down the fault at the component level. FPDE can identify single and multiple faults by the introduction of characteristic values. Fault reaction provides an interface to invoke emergency operation or tolerant control, even possibly system reconfiguration. The paper ends with a presentation of simulation results and discussion of a case study.