A subspace based fault diagnose method and its application on mechatronics systems

The mechatronics systems are widely used in modern society. This paper presents a novel data-driven scheme which can be used for fault diagnose of mechatronics systems. The proposed method is based on the subspace identification of parity vector. By constructing the output observer, critical variables can be acquired by soft sensors. This makes the fault diagnoses free from the limitation of online measurement. A diagnose observer is designed directly from the parity vector. Finally, the proposed scheme is tested by the Simulink benchmark of vehicle suspension and shows its good performance. © 2014 IEEE