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Fault Detection and Diagnostics for Rooftop Air Conditioners

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1 THE FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS METHODOLOGY<br />

One of the drawbacks of the SRB method presented by Rossi <strong>and</strong> Braun (1997) is<br />

that it can not h<strong>and</strong>le multiple-simultaneous faults. From the control point of view,<br />

decoupling is an efficient way to deal with complicated interactions among multiple<br />

inputs <strong>and</strong> multiple outputs. From the mathematical point of view, trans<strong>for</strong>mation is the<br />

key to decoupling a system. Section 1.1 first <strong>for</strong>mulates the FDD methodology in a<br />

mathematical way. And then, from a mathematical perspective, a decoupling-based FDD<br />

scheme is proposed to deal with multiple-simultaneous faults efficiently. The<br />

mathematical decoupling approach leads to infinite decoupling cases, but only those<br />

which have physical meaning are practical <strong>for</strong> low-cost FDD use. To find the physical<br />

decoupling, section 1.2 describes a way to analyze the system from a component point of<br />

view.<br />

1.1 Mathematical Formulation of Model-Based FDD Problem<br />

The (thermodynamic) states of a (RTU) system are functions of external driving<br />

conditions <strong>and</strong> various faults, as is shown in Figure 1-1. It is important <strong>for</strong> fault detection<br />

<strong>and</strong> diagnosis (FDD) not to misinterpret variations in (thermodynamic) state-variables<br />

caused by changes in the driving conditions <strong>for</strong> faults. If measurements are classified<br />

directly, the classification has to be complicated to consider the effect of external driving<br />

conditions. In order to simplify classification <strong>and</strong> improve overall FDD per<strong>for</strong>mance,<br />

normal operation models are used to predict expected values <strong>for</strong> these measurements<br />

under normal operation in terms of measured external driving conditions. For any steadystate<br />

measurement, the difference between expected <strong>and</strong> actual measurement values<br />

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