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Probabilistic Performance Analysis of Fault Diagnosis Schemes

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the worst-case performance under a given uncertainty model.<br />

3.3 Quantifying Accuracy<br />

Our performance analysis <strong>of</strong> fault detection is rooted in the theory <strong>of</strong> statistical hypothesis<br />

testing. This approach not only allows us to utilize the tools and terminology <strong>of</strong> hypothesis<br />

testing, it also allows us to draw connections between fault detection and other fields,<br />

such as signal detection [54, 61, 75, 93], medical diagnostic testing [31, 73, 111], and pattern<br />

recognition [34, 57]. For a standard mathematical treatment <strong>of</strong> statistical hypothesis testing,<br />

see Lehmann and Romano [60].<br />

3.3.1 <strong>Fault</strong> Detection and Hypothesis Testing<br />

For the sake <strong>of</strong> simplicity, this section focuses on the problem <strong>of</strong> fault detection, while the<br />

more general fault isolation problem is treated in Section 3.6. Hence, the parameter space is<br />

partitioned into two sets: the set containing the nominal parameter, Θ 0 = {0}, and the set<br />

containing all faulty parameter values, Θ 1 = Θ c 0<br />

. At each time k, define the hypotheses<br />

H 0,k : θ k ∈ Θ 0 ,<br />

H 1,k : θ k ∈ Θ 1 ,<br />

and let H i ,k be the event that hypothesis H i ,k is true, for each i . Since exactly one hypothesis<br />

is true at each time, the sets H 0,k and H 1,k form a partition <strong>of</strong> the sample space Ω. The<br />

fault detection scheme V is interpreted as a test that decides between the hypotheses H 0,k<br />

and H 1,k . Although the input data u 0:k = {u 0 ,...,u k } are known and deterministic, the<br />

distribution <strong>of</strong> the output data y 0:k = {y 0 ,..., y k } clearly depends on which hypothesis is<br />

true. Together, u 0:k and y 0:k are interpreted as a test statistic, which is used by the test V to<br />

produce a decision d k in D = {0,1}, at time k. Let D 0,k be the event that d k = 0 and let D 1,k<br />

be the event that d k = 1. Of course, exactly one <strong>of</strong> these events is true at each time, so the<br />

sets D 0,k and D 1,k form another partition <strong>of</strong> the sample space Ω.<br />

3.3.2 <strong>Probabilistic</strong> <strong>Analysis</strong><br />

Let the prior probabilities <strong>of</strong> the hypotheses be denoted<br />

Q 0,k := P(H 0,k ),<br />

Q 1,k := P(H 1,k ).<br />

Since exactly one hypothesis is true and exactly one decision is made at each time k, the<br />

performance <strong>of</strong> the test V is characterized by the probability that the events D i ,k and H j,k<br />

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