Increasing effectiveness of model-based fault diagnosis: A Dynamic Bayesian Network design for decision making

This papers aims to design a new approach in order to increase the performance of the decision making in model-based fault diagnosis when signature vectors of various faults are identical or closed. The proposed approach consists on taking into account the knowledge issued from the reliability analysis and the model-based fault diagnosis. The decision making, formalised as a bayesian network, is established with a priori knowledge on the dynamic component degradation through Markov chains. The effectiveness and performances of the technique are illustrated on a heating water process corrupted by faults. Copyright © 2006 IFAC