Sensitivity bond graph approach to multiple fault isolation through parameter estimation

Abstract: In model-based quantitative multiple fault detection and isolation (FDI), fault disambiguation is based on parameter estimation. In this paper, the fault hypothesis is generated by evaluating a set of analytical redundancy relations (ARRs) and parameter values corresponding to the unstructured part of the fault subspace are estimated by minimizing a function of the ARRs. Process and measurement uncertainties are handled by using a passive approach for robust FDI. Bond graph modelling is used to describe process models and to derive the ARRs. The bond graph model of the process is differentially causalled and it is then converted into a diagnostic bond graph form. The diagnostic bond graph is further converted into its corresponding sensitivity bond graph form, which gives the residual sensitivity to parametric changes. The developed algorithm provides quicker fault isolation because only a few parameters are estimated and it does not need several model simulations, thereby making it suitable for real-time process supervision