Fault diagnosis via fusion of information from a case stream

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to fault diagnosis applied to a stream of cases. The approach uses a combination of casebased reasoning and information fusion to do classification. The approach consists of two steps. First, we perform local anomaly detection on-board a machine to identify anomalous individual cases. Then, we monitor the stream of anomalous cases using a stream anomaly detector based on a sliding window approach. When the stream anomaly detector identifies an anomalous window, the anomalous cases in the window are classified using a CBR classifier. Thereafter, the individual classifications are aggregated into a composite case with a single prediction using a information fusion method. We compare three information fusion approaches: simple majority vote, weighted majority vote and Dempster-Shafer fusion. As baseline for comparison, we use the classification of the last identified anomalous case in the window as the aggregated prediction.