Studies in Informatics and Control, 26(2) 239-248, June 2017 ISSN: 1220-1766 eISSN: 1841-429X
https://doi.org/10.24846/v26i2y201712
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1. Introduction
Fault diagnosis in dynamic systems has been
the subject of several research works. It is
defined as a process of detecting any deviation
or intended behaviour of a system and isolating
the cause of this failure. There are many
approach diagnosis and technical processes [1,
5, 10, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 29] that have been
applied to fault diagnosis of dynamic systems.
Their goals are focused on a timely diagnosis
of defects in order to provide a precise
judgment rule for distribution operators.
Particularly when serious defects occur in a
system, a lot of alarm information is
transmitted to the control system. In such cases
operators must quickly and accurately assess
the causes, location and defect system
components. Diagnosing faults with the right
methods can provide accurate and effective
diagnostic information for ship operators and help
them take adequate action in certain faulty
situations to ensure safety.
In the context of diagnosis more model-based
systems have been used: finite state machine [17,
8], Petri nets [9, 31, 34, 35, 38]. Despite the
various researches in recent years and the
proposed modeling approaches for the fault
diagnosis, several unresolved problems
have remained.
The performances of the diagnostic approaches
depend on the means of the model being used.
Obtaining and using the model to construct a
diagnosis system is a complex and difficult task
more particularly for the uncertain systems
because of unforeseen and uncontrollable
events that characterize them.
This paper focuses on fault diagnosis of
uncertain discrete-event systems and tries to use
Interval Fuzzy Constrained Petri Nets (IFCPN)
as a tool of modelling, identification
and isolation.
The proposed tool IFCPN model is introduced
in order to extend some properties of the
Interval Constraint Petri Nets [13, 14] which is
considered as an extension the P-temporal Petri
Net [26] and a sub-class of High Level PN
[21, 25].
Our main contribution is to extend the
functional range of ICPN applications to fault
diagnosis of uncertain systems where the
validity intervals of any parameter are fuzzy
and characterized by the propagation of
uncertain events [4, 15, 30].
This paper is organized as follows: In the first
part of this work, we studied the modelling of a
mixing system: we propose an approach using
Statistical Process Control in order to build the
validity ranges of fuzzy intervals and we
compute robust control laws of this model.
In the second part we study the robustness of a
system which is defined as its ability to
maintain the concentration properties specified
on the occurrence of disruptions. After having
proved this robustness we use the tool built for
the diagnosis of the defaults. The diagnosis
method is based on fuzzy logic [37].
Fault Diagnosis of Uncertain Systems
Based on Interval Fuzzy PETRI Net
Fatma LAJMI, Achraf Jabeur TALMOUDI, Hedi DHOUIBI
LARATSI, National Engineering School of Monastir
5000 Street Ibn El Jazzar – Monastir 5035, , Tunisia
flajmi@yahoo.fr; achraf_telmoudi@yahoo.fr, hedi.dhouibi@laposte.net
Abstract: The purpose of the following article is a novel approach to modeling, diagnosis and control of discrete event
systems. This approach uses the Petri net Fuzzy Interval (IFPN) to describe the diagnosis system. The Petri network is used
to model the system which needs to be controlled. This work is a description of a case study applied to an ingredient mixing
system where the concentration of ingredients has to be held within a valid range.
Keywords: Uncertain systems, Intervals Fuzzy Petri Nets, Modelling, Fault Diagnosis.