Abstract
Alarm floods are leading issues that compromise the efficiency of industrial alarm systems and are identified as major causes of many industrial accidents. As an advanced technique to handle alarm floods, sequence alignment based similarity analysis has been developed to match alarm flood sequences, and thus can help with further root cause identification and early warning of alarm floods. However, existing methods based on biological sequence alignment algorithms ignore the relations between alarm occurrences, and thus may cause incorrect matches or mismatches of alarms when comparing two flood sequences. Accordingly, this paper proposes a new alarm flood similarity analysis method based on global vectors and Move–Split–Merge (MSM) distance. The contributions are mainly twofold: (1) An alarm encoding model based on modified global vectors is devised to convert alarm sequences into numerical vectors that reflect the correlations of alarms; (2) a similarity analysis method based on the modified MSM distance is proposed for comparison of encoded alarm flood sequences of unequal lengths. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through a case study with a publicly accessible industrial model for Vinyl Acetate Monomer.
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