Practical Model-Based Diagnosis with Qualitative Possibilistic Uncertainty

An approach to fault isolation that exploits vastly incomplete models is presented. It relies on separate descriptions of each component behavior, together with the links between them, which enables focusing of the reasoning to the relevant part of the system. As normal observations do not need explanation, the behavior of the components is limited to anomaly propagation. Diagnostic solutions are disorders (fault modes or abnormal signatures) that are consistent with the observations, as well as abductive explanations. An ordinal representation of uncertainty based on possibility theory provides a simple exception-tolerant description of the component behaviors. We can for instance distinguish between effects that are more or less certainly present (or absent) and effects that are more or less certainly present (or absent) when a given anomaly is present. A realistic example illustrates the benefits of this approach.Comment: Appears in Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1995

Possibilistic handling of uncertainty in fault diagnosis

eBook Published 17 July 2019, ISBN 978-0429142741, https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429142741International audienceFMECAs (failure mode effects and criticality analyses) form a very important category of knowledge, compiled during the design phase of a complex system, and used for diagnosis activities. This section proposes their extension, allowing a finer representation of the available knowledge, at approximately the same cost, through the introduction of an appropriate representation of uncertainty and incompleteness based on possibility theory. Efficient discrimination techniques exploiting uncertain observations are introduced, and a satellite industry example illustrates the computations involved in this approach

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Practical model-based diagnosis with qualitative possibilistic uncertainty

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