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Diagnostic method for an evolutionary process
Assignee: Thales SA
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Filing: 1993-06-02
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Granted: 1996-04-23
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Expires: 2013-06-02
Abstract
Abstract The method of the invention establishes a reference state and a current state for an industrial evolutionary process from physical parameters measured on all the equipment items employing the evaluating process. These two states are compared, parameter by parameter, by resorting to fuzzy logic for classifying the quantities, and a diagnosis is established using expert rules.
Inventors
- 👤 Laurent Dubost
- 👤 Jean-Noel Heude
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-02 14:10
CPC Classifications
G; G05; G05B; G05B23/00; G05B23/02; G05B23/0205; G05B23/0218; G05B23/0243; G05B23/0254; G01; G01D; G01D1/00; G01D1/14; G05B19/00; G05B19/02; G05B19/418; G05B19/4184; G05B23/0259; G05B23/0283; Y; Y02; Y02P; Y02P90/00; Y02P90/02; Y02P90/80; Y10; Y10S; Y10S706/00; Y10S706/902; Y10S706/903; Y10S706/904; Y10S706/911; Y10S706/912
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
158 words
A diagnostic method for determining deviations of an evolutionary process, comprising the steps of: measuring a plurality of physical parameters characteristic of the evolutionary process; calculating from the measured plurality of physical parameters a current state of the evolutionary process and a corresponding reference state of the evolutionary process; first comparing the current state and the reference state physical parameter by physical parameter to generate relative differences between the current state and reference state for each parameter; categorizing each parameter into one of a plurality of categories indicating a relevance of each parameter to a respective deviation in the evolutionary process; determining for each respective deviation the relative difference between the current state and the reference state parameter by parameter which generate the respective deviation; and diagnosing each respective deviation based on the category of each parameter and the parameter by parameter determined relative differences between the current state and the reference state which generate the respective deviation.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
158 words
A diagnostic method for determining deviations of an evolutionary process, comprising the steps of: measuring a plurality of physical parameters characteristic of the evolutionary process; calculating from the measured plurality of physical parameters a current state of the evolutionary process and a corresponding reference state of the evolutionary process; first comparing the current state and the reference state physical parameter by physical parameter to generate relative differences between the current state and reference state for each parameter; categorizing each parameter into one of a plurality of categories indicating a relevance of each parameter to a respective deviation in the evolutionary process; determining for each respective deviation the relative difference between the current state and the reference state parameter by parameter which generate the respective deviation; and diagnosing each respective deviation based on the category of each parameter and the parameter by parameter determined relative differences between the current state and the reference state which generate the respective deviation.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
18 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein the reference state is obtained by modelling the measured physical parameters.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
15 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein the reference state is obtained from stored values.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
14 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein the reference state is obtained by learning.
Claim 6
Independent Claim
15 words
The method according to any one of claims 2-4, wherein the reference state is evolutionary.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
26 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein the current state is evaluated by classifying the measured physical parameters in domains defined with respect to reference values.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
45 words
The method according to claim 6, wherein the domains are defined from values of corresponding physical parameters measured in an absence of anomalies and by statistically determining limits of the domains from a distribution of relative differences of magnitudes with respect to the reference values.
Claim 9
Independent Claim
79 words
The method according to either of claims 6 or 7, wherein the step of diagnosing further comprises the step of establishing an expert rule with premises which each determine membership of a measured quantity to a domain defined with respect to the reference values of the measured physical parameter, by calculating a mean of member coefficients of each premise, by weighting the mean by a weighting function of the domain, and by comparing a result with a threshold value.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
16 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein tendency curves are established from the measured physical parameters.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
36 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of physical parameters belongs to two or more families of parameters and has respective likelihood coefficients for each of the families of parameters.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
16 words
The method according to claim 10, wherein the families of parameters have a degree of overlap.
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