Fuzzy Inference Based Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Prognostics

ISBN-13: 9783639147322 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 436 str.

Dustin Garvey

Opis

To date the majority of the research related to thedevelopment and application of monitoring, diagnostic, and prognosticsystems has been exclusive in the sense that only one of the threeareas is the focus of the work. While previous research progresses each ofthe respective fields, the end result is a variable "grab bag" oftechniques that address each problem independently. Also, the new field ofprognostics is lacking in the sense that few methods have beenproposed that produce estimates of the remaining useful life (RUL)of a device or can be realistically applied to real-world systems. Thiswork addresses both problems by developing the nonparametric fuzzyinference system (NFIS) which is adapted for monitoring,diagnosis, and prognosis and then proposing the path classificationand estimation (PACE) model that can be used to predict the RUL of adevice that does or does not have a well defined failure threshold.

O autorze

Dustin Garvey attended the University of Tennessee, USA, where he
graduated with a
B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering in May 2005, December
2005, and May
2007 respectively. He has worked in various fields including the
development of
optical sensors and pattern recognition based software for
monitoring, diagnostics,
and prognostics.