On-line adaptive clustering for process monitoring and fault detection

  • Authors:
  • Milena Petković;Milan R. Rapaić;Zoran D. Jeličić;Alessandro Pisano

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia;Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia;Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

An adaptive clustering procedure specifically designed for process monitoring, fault detection and isolation is presented in this paper. The key feature of the proposed procedure can be identified as its underlying capability to detect novelties in the system's mode of operation and, thus, to identify previously unseen functioning modes of the process. Once a novelty is detected, relevant informations are used to enrich the knowledge-base of the algorithm and as a result the proposed clustering procedure evolves and learns the new features of the monitored process in accordance with the available process data. The suggested clustering procedure is theoretically illustrated and its effectiveness has been investigated experimentally. Particularly, the on-line implementation of the algorithm and its integration with a fault detection expert system have been considered by making reference to a pneumatic process.