Data-driven Fault Detection And Diagnosis Research Articles

A data-driven strategy for detection and diagnosis of building chiller faults using linear discriminant analysis

Chillers contribute to a significant part of the building energy consumption. In order to save energy and improve the performance of building automation systems, there is an increasing need for chiller fault detection and diagnosis (FDD). This paper proposes a two-stage data-driven FDD strategy which formulates the chiller fault detection and diagnosis task as a multi-class classification problem. Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is adopted to project the high dimensional data into a lower dimensional space so as to achieve maximum class separation and original class information maintenance. At the first stage, a fault is detected and diagnosed if the monitoring data set is the closest to one of the predefined fault clusters and within the predefined Manhattan distance range of the corresponding fault. At the second stage, fault severity level is recognized by comparing the monitoring data set with the corresponding predefined severity level clusters. The fault is diagnosed as at a particular severity level if it is the closest to the corresponding severity level cluster. The proposed strategy is validated by the experimental data of ASHRAE Research Project 1043 (RP-1043). Results show that the data-driven FDD strategy using LDA can detect and diagnose chiller faults effectively.

Fault detection and diagnosis of an industrial steam turbine using a distributed configuration of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems

The issue of fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) has gained widespread industrial interest in process condition monitoring applications. An innovative data-driven FDD methodology has been presented in this paper on the basis of a distributed configuration of three adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) classifiers for an industrial 440 MW power plant steam turbine with once-through Benson type boiler. Each ANFIS classifier has been developed for a dedicated category of four steam turbine faults. A preliminary set of conceptual and experimental studies has been conducted to realize such fault categorization scheme. A proper selection of four measured variables has been configured to feed each ANFIS classifier with the most influential diagnostic information. This consequently leads to a simple distributed FDD system, facilitating the training and testing phases and yet prevents operational deficiency due to possible cross-correlated measured data effects. A diverse set of test scenarios has been carried out to illustrate the successful diagnostic performances of the proposed FDD system against 12 major faults under challenging noise corrupted measurements and data deformation corresponding to a specific fault time history pattern.