Enhancing Consistency Based Diagnosis with Machine Learning Techniques

This paper propose a diagnosis architecture that integrates consistency based diagnosis with induced time series classifiers, trying to combine the advantages of both methods. Consistency based diagnosis allows fault detection and localization without prior knowledge of the device fault modes. Machine learning techniques are able to induce time series classifiers that may be used to identify fault modes of a dynamic systems. The diagnostician performs fault detection and localization resorting to consistency based diagnosis trough possible conflicts. Then, a time series classifier, induced from simulated examples, generates a sequence of faults modes, coherent with the result of the fault localization stage, and ordered by fault modes confidence. Finally, to simplify the diagnosis task, it is considered as a subtask of a supervisory system, who is in charge of identifying the physical system working conditions.