Sensor fault detection and recovery methodology for a geothermal heat exchanger

Abstract

This research addresses a sensor fault detection and recovery methodology oriented to a real system as can be a geothermal heat exchanger installed as part of the heat pump installation at a bioclimatic house. The main aim is to stablish the procedure to detect the anomaly over a sensor and recover the value when it occurs. Therefore, some experiments applying a Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) regressor, as modelling technique, have been made with satisfactory results in general terms. The correct election of the input variables is critical to get a robust model, specially, those features based on the sensor values on the previous state.