Global qualitative description of a class of nonlinear dynamical systems

  • Authors:
  • Olivier Bernard;Jean-Luc Gouzé

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA-COMORE, Cedex, France;INRIA-COMORE, Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a methodology to derive a qualitative description of the behavior of a system from an incompletely known nonlinear dynamical model. The model is written as an algebraic structure with unknown parameters and/or functions. Under some hypotheses, we obtain a graph describing the possible transitions between regions, defined by the trends of the state variables and their relative positions. A qualitative simulation of the model can be compared with on-line data for fault detection purpose. We give the example of a nonlinear biological model (in dimension three) for the growth of cells in a bioreactor.