An optimal sensor placement algorithm taking into account diagnosability specifications

  • Authors:
  • Abed Alrahim Yassine;Albert Rosich;Stephane Ploix

  • Affiliations:
  • G-SCOP lab, INPG, CNRS UMR 5272, BP 46, F-38402 Saint Martin d'Hères Cedex, France;Albert Rosich, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Automatic Control Department (ESAII), Spain;G-SCOP lab, INPG, CNRS UMR 5272, BP 46, F-38402 Saint Martin d'Hères Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • AQTR '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR) - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Suitable installed sensors in a industrial process is a necessary condition for fault diagnosis. Sensor placement for diagnosis purposes is to study which process variables have to be measured to satisfy diagnosis specifications (detectability, dis-criminability and diagnosability). This paper presents a method based on the study of the structural model properties and the Dulmage-Mendelsohn decomposition. Due to the use of structural models, the proposed approach can be applied to a wide variety of system (linear, algebraic, dynamics, etc.). Assuming that the cost of placing a sensor for each possible variable is defined, this method finds the minimal cost sensor configuration according to the diagnosability criteria. This method does not require the computation of testable subsystems