Variable Selection and Sensor Fusion in Automatic Hierarchical Fault Monitoring of Large Scale Systems

Abstract

In this paper, the problem of human overload in monitoring the many sensors of a complex industrial plant is addressed. A hierarchical automated fault monitoring and analysis system for high-level decision making is presented. The monitoring system operates in parallel with the traditional channels. It has no effect other than being able to display its findings to the human operator, and to point out potential problems and their perceived causes. The prospects as well as difficulties in realizing such a monitoring system are analyzed by discussing a prototypical implementation of such a system on a sophisticated quantitative large-scale model of a nuclear power plant.


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