FAULTS DIAGNOSIS UTILIZING CE-MATRICES

In this paper, an algorithm is proposed for on-line real-time diagnosi s of faults that cannot be diagnosed by conventional algorithms. Pulse -type failures or failures involving oscillating state variables, for example, can be diagnosed, and with far less memory than by a multista ge algorithm in which the number of stages increases with fault prolif eration. Through the use of a cause-effect matrix, possible fault prol iferation paths can be rapidly calculated by a Boolean.