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5.3 Off-line Inference by Experts<br />

Diagnosing the Beam Propeller Movement<br />

of the Frontal St<strong>and</strong><br />

the list of diagnoses that the MBD implementations discussed in this chapter produce. The order of<br />

failure probabilities is determined by interviewing experts. The table also names the health variables<br />

that will be used in the LYDIA models presented in the following sections.<br />

FRU Description Health<br />

Variable<br />

LUC Extension<br />

MVR<br />

Motor/Brake<br />

St<strong>and</strong><br />

Potmeter/Encoder<br />

The controller of the mechanical movement.<br />

It consists of three nested control<br />

loops (position, speed <strong>and</strong> current).<br />

Controls the current <strong>and</strong> voltage towards<br />

the motor. MVR st<strong>and</strong>s for Motor Voltage<br />

Regulator.<br />

The motor <strong>and</strong> brake are combined in<br />

one FRU, namely the Motor/Brake unit<br />

(MBU). If the brake is released, the motor<br />

has to generate a torque in order to accelerate<br />

or slow down the st<strong>and</strong>’s rotating.<br />

The mechanical body that is subject to the<br />

rotation.<br />

Both the potentiometer as the encoder are<br />

used as sensors to measure the position of<br />

the st<strong>and</strong>. For reasons of accuracy <strong>and</strong> error<br />

detection the values are combined.<br />

h EXT 0.03<br />

h MVR 0.02<br />

h MBU 0.01<br />

h St<strong>and</strong> 0.05<br />

h PEU 0.04<br />

A-priori<br />

Failure<br />

Probability<br />

Table 5.3: Components that are included in the target system, with their health variables, <strong>and</strong> associated<br />

a priori failure probabilities.<br />

5.3 Off-line Inference by Experts<br />

This section describes step 2 of the case study approach. This step requires that experts derive<br />

a LUT by human inference of system data. The motivation of this step is as follows. Failing<br />

to acquire relevant knowledge for constructing a consistency-based model is the most important<br />

show stopper for the success of the model-based approach. Abductive <strong>and</strong> deductive reasoning<br />

by experts provides an extra source of modeling information. The information that expert use for<br />

constructing the symptom-diagnosis mapping is mostly gained by experience, <strong>and</strong> hard to make<br />

explicit by interviews. This is why this modeling step is very useful for acquiring that ’hidden’<br />

information, <strong>and</strong> use it for constructing a consistency-based model.<br />

5.3.1 Fault Scenarios of the Beam Propeller Movement<br />

Table 5.4 shows (part of) the fault scenarios that have been analyzed 3 . These eleven fault scenarios,<br />

S1 till S11, occurred during system operation in hospitals. This means that the data origins from a<br />

real case setting. This is possible, because the shown system data could be extracted from the remote<br />

monitoring tools of PMS. Experts interpreted the system data of each fault scenario, <strong>and</strong> produced<br />

a list of possible diagnoses, ordered by probability. Table 5.4 shows the system data that experts<br />

examined in combination with the proposed diagnoses. The fault scenarios can be characterized<br />

3 Table B.2 of Appendix B shows all fault scenarios, that are considered in the work of this thesis.<br />

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