METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND IDENTIFYING FAULTY SENSORS IN A PROCESS

Patent №

US 5,680,409

Granted

1997-10-21

Filed 1995

Owner

FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC., A DELAWARE CORP.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08514497

A method and apparatus is provided for detecting a faulty sensor within a process control system having a set of sensors, each of which produces an associated sensor output signal. The method and apparatus produce a set of sensor estimate signals from the sensor output signals using principal component analysis and then determine a validity index for each of the sensors as a ratio of two residuals, wherein each of the residuals represents a different measure of the difference between the sensor output signals and the sensor estimate signals. The determined validity indexes are then used to detect a failure of one of the sensors and/or to identify which one of the sensors has failed.

PlanningG05B 9/02G01D 3/08

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation0.33
Evolutionary computation0.01
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Speech0.00
Natural language0.00

Ownership

FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC., A DELAWARE CORP.

assignment · 76600169

Assignors

QIN, S. JOE, DUNIA, RICARDO H., HAYES, RANDALL L.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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