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Fault Detection and Diagnostics for Rooftop Air Conditioners

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The SRB FDD method determines which factors contribute to the current<br />

operation state directly from overall state variables. This method uses normal state<br />

models to predict the normal operation states according to the overall driving conditions<br />

<strong>and</strong> generates residuals to decouple the interactions between driving conditions <strong>and</strong> faults,<br />

<strong>and</strong> further uses statistical analysis to further decouple the actions from disturbances.<br />

This chapter summarizes an improved SRB FDD method (refer to Deliverables 2.1.3 &<br />

2.1.4 or Li & Braun (2003) <strong>for</strong> details). However, this method leaves the couplings<br />

among the different faults untouched, so it cannot h<strong>and</strong>le multiple-simultaneous faults. A<br />

method <strong>for</strong> h<strong>and</strong>ling multiple-simultaneous faults is described in the next chapter.<br />

3.1 Limitations of the Original SRB FDD Method<br />

Although the SRB FDD method proposed by Rossi <strong>and</strong> Braun (1997) has<br />

reasonably good per<strong>for</strong>mance, there are two disadvantageous assumptions which impact<br />

FDD per<strong>for</strong>mance. One is that the covariance matrix of the probability distributions <strong>for</strong><br />

all faulty operation is constant <strong>and</strong> the same as that of normal operation. This assumption<br />

is important <strong>for</strong> this method, because it is difficult to obtain the covariance matrix <strong>for</strong><br />

different faulty conditions. When implementing fault diagnosis, a further assumption, a<br />

diagonal co-variance matrix, is made. The diagonal assumption greatly simplifies the<br />

calculation of the probabilities associated with the occurrence of each of the faults,<br />

changing the problem from the integration of a 7-dimensional probability density<br />

function into a problem of seven 1-dimensional integrals. The first assumption is<br />

difficult to validate <strong>and</strong> the second one, a diagonal co-variance matrix, leads to some loss<br />

in FDD sensitivity. Deliverables 2.1.3 & 2.1.4 <strong>and</strong> Li & Braun (2003) evaluated the<br />

second assumption using Monte-Carlo Simulation. Section 3.2 summarizes the improved<br />

SRB FDD method <strong>and</strong> section 3.3 provides some comparisons with the original method.

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