In
this era of Industry 4.0, there are continuing efforts to develop
fault detection and diagnosis methods that are fully autonomous; these
methods are self-learning, with little or no human intervention. This
paper proposes a methodology for the autonomous diagnosis of the root
cause of a detected fault in a complex processing system. The methodology
comprises steps to detect and classify any newly encountered fault,
classify the known faults, and find the root cause of the detected
fault condition. The one-class support vector machine (SVM) model
is used in the framework to detect the unlabeled fault, and the neural
network is used for fault classification and root cause analysis.
The developed methodology is capable of self-updating the fault database
by detecting and diagnosing any new fault condition. A permutation
algorithm is applied in the neural network framework to extract the
variable’s contribution to the classified fault condition.
Also, Spearman’s rank correlation approach is used to investigate
and justify the data correlation and causation. The proposed framework
is tested using a continuous stirred tank heater and the benchmark
Tennessee Eastman process.
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