Failure diagnosis using discrete-event models

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Abstract

Detection and isolation of failures in large, complex systems is a crucial and challenging task. The increasingly stringent requirements on performance and reliability of complex technological systems have necessitated the development of sophisticated and systematic methods for the timely and accurate diagnosis of system failures. We propose a discrete-event systems (DES) approach to the failure diagnosis problem. This approach is applicable to systems that fall naturally in the class of DES; moreover, for the purpose of diagnosis, continuous-variable dynamic systems can often be viewed as DES at a higher level of abstraction. We present a methodology for modeling physical systems in a DES framework and illustrate this method with examples. We discuss the notion of diagnosability, the construction procedure of the diagnoser, and necessary and sufficient conditions for diagnosability. Finally, we illustrate our approach using realistic models of two different heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, one diagnosable and the other not diagnosable. While the modeling methodology presented here has been developed for the purpose of failure diagnosis, its scope is not restricted to this problem; it can also be used to develop DES models for other purposes such as control.

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