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Probabilistic Performance Analysis of Fault Diagnosis Schemes

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ε<br />

Residual<br />

0<br />

0 T f<br />

T d<br />

Time<br />

Figure 2.6. Typical plot <strong>of</strong> the response <strong>of</strong> the residual to the occurrence <strong>of</strong> a particular fault at time<br />

T f . The residual crosses the threshold ε at time T d , giving a detection delay <strong>of</strong> T d − T f .<br />

the actual values <strong>of</strong> the criteria may be hard to interpret in terms <strong>of</strong> the desired system-level<br />

performance (e.g., overall reliability, false alarm rate).<br />

2.6.2 <strong>Probabilistic</strong> Approaches<br />

Recognizing the need for more rigorous and informative performance metrics, some authors<br />

in the fault diagnosis community (e.g., [8, 24, 100]) have proposed the probability <strong>of</strong> false<br />

alarm as a performance metric. For a fixed time k, a false alarm is defined as the event that<br />

the fault detection scheme indicates a fault at time k, given that no fault has occurred at<br />

or before time k. Conditional on the event that no fault has occurred, the only source <strong>of</strong><br />

randomness in the residual {r k } is the noise signal {v k }. In many cases, the distribution <strong>of</strong><br />

the stochastic process {r k } is easily computed, and the probability <strong>of</strong> a false alarm can be<br />

evaluated (or at least bounded above).<br />

However, the probability <strong>of</strong> false alarm alone cannot characterize the performance <strong>of</strong><br />

a fault detection scheme. Consider, for example, the trivial decision function defined as<br />

δ 0 : (k,r k ) → 0, for all k and r k . Paired with any residual generator F , the fault detection<br />

scheme V = (F,δ 0 ) will have zero probability <strong>of</strong> false alarm, but V is incapable <strong>of</strong> detecting<br />

faults. Hence, it is also necessary quantify the probability <strong>of</strong> detection, which is the<br />

probability that the fault detection scheme correctly detects a fault when one is present. In<br />

general, the probability <strong>of</strong> detection must be computed for each fault or each class <strong>of</strong> faults.<br />

Performing these computations can be intractable unless special care is taken. For example,<br />

the class <strong>of</strong> fault signals considered in [100] is restricted to the set <strong>of</strong> randomly occurring<br />

biases, which are easily parameterized by the time <strong>of</strong> occurrence and the magnitude <strong>of</strong> the<br />

bias. More commonly, authors use simulation or design criteria, as in the previous section,<br />

to complement the probability <strong>of</strong> false alarm (e.g., [8]). One <strong>of</strong> the main objectives <strong>of</strong> this<br />

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