Abstract:

The size and complexity of present day systems motivates the need for developing distributed fault diagnosis algorithms. This paper uses the Transcend approach to fault diagnosis to develop a methodology that partitions the set of possible fault candidates in a physical system to independent sets of faults given a set of measurements. Separate diagnosers that do not interact with each other can be constructed for each independent fault set while maintaining complete diagnosability of the system. The implication of this approach is that a computationally expensive diagnosis task is decomposed into a set of computationally simpler tasks that can be performed independently. 

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