{"title":"Fault diagnosis for steam separators based on parameter identification and CUSUM classification","authors":"P. Tadić, Z. Durovic, B. Kovacevic, V. Papic","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2012.6209946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2012.6209946","url":null,"abstract":"A method for diagnosing faults in steam separators is presented. Faults in the water level, water flow and steam flow sensors are analyzed. Precise models of the steam separator system are difficult to obtain, which makes the most common model-based fault detection and isolation approaches unapplicable. An identification-based method is used instead: parameters of the process are identified in real time, and the resulting data samples, which we denote as residuals, are used as inputs to a CUSUM-type classification scheme. It then decides if a fault is present, and if so, which one. In other words, residuals are first generated by parameter identification, and then evaluated by a modification of the CUSUM test. The choice of the CUSUM algorithm was motivated by its optimality with respect to detection delay. The identified parameters are assumed to be normally distributed. This assumption is experimentally verified: the true probability density functions (PDF) are estimated, and the performance of the detector based on these estimated PDFs is compared to that of the previous detector, based on the Gaussian PDF. The proposed method was tested on real-world data, obtained from the TEKO B1 Unit of the Kostolac Thermal Power Plant in Serbia. The results suggest extremely low probabilities of false alarm, missed detection and false isolation. As for detection delay, just one residual sample is needed for proper fault diagnosis in some cases, while 83 samples are needed in the worst-case scenario.","PeriodicalId":365141,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128468291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To robust identification of water steam-separator process in thermal power plants","authors":"G. Kvascev, A. Marjanović, P. Tadić, Z. Djurovic","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2012.6209945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2012.6209945","url":null,"abstract":"One of the primary requirements for a high performance process control is a good quality and reliability of obtained measurements. In order to overcome the problem of sporadic high-intensity irregular measurements (outliers) presence, a robust process identification procedure must be used. The paper presents an application of an adaptive approach to robust parameter estimation of a linear dynamic discrete-time system, based on QQ-plot method together with robustified winsorization technique. The proposed procedure is implemented in a stem separator system in thermal power plants. The comparison to the conventional RLS approach demonstrates the effectiveness of this method in the presence of impulse noise.","PeriodicalId":365141,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology","volume":"377 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132121325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Pistofidis, C. Emmanouilidis, C. Koulamas, D. Karampatzakis, N. Papathanassiou
{"title":"A layered e-maintenance architecture powered by smart wireless monitoring components","authors":"P. Pistofidis, C. Emmanouilidis, C. Koulamas, D. Karampatzakis, N. Papathanassiou","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2012.6209969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2012.6209969","url":null,"abstract":"Industrial asset lifecycle management is facing pressing demands to rationalize asset usage in parallel with meeting production, quality, safety, environment and cost-efficiency constraints. The introduction of enabling technologies, within an e-Maintenance framework is a significant contributor to this end. Among the key relevant technological factors are web-based maintenance services, wireless sensing and identification technologies, data and services integration and interoperability, as well as mobile and contextualized computing. Within such a framework, a layered e-Maintenance architecture is introduced, leveraging upon the strengths of smart and wireless components in order to upgrade the maintenance-services from the low level of operations, to the higher levels of planning and decision making.","PeriodicalId":365141,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology","volume":"195 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122987122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of redundant sub-module utilization on modular multilevel converters","authors":"G. Konstantinou, M. Ciobotaru, V. Agelidis","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2012.6210039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2012.6210039","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the operation of the modular multilevel converter (MMC) when redundant switching sub-modules are utilized within the arms of the converter. The redundant switching sub-modules in the arm are not used in order to achieve a higher number of levels at the output of the converter, but to improve the reliability of the topology and reduce the switching frequency of the individual components. Moreover, the use of the redundant switching sub-modules leads to lower second order harmonics in the leg circulating currents and reduced switching frequency in the sub-modules while avoiding consecutive switchings of the same sub-module. Simulation results of a 21-level MMC using configurations with 20, 22 and 24 sub-modules per arm are presented.","PeriodicalId":365141,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123062246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of robust control laws for a DC/DC ladder multilevel converter","authors":"A. López, D. Patiño, R. Díez, G. Perilla","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2012.6210009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2012.6210009","url":null,"abstract":"In this article different control methods for a ladder multilevel converter (two cells) are evaluated. An analysis of the classical average model allows to chose a set of operation points and construct an uncertain model. Moreover, the necessary disturbance variables and performance masks are defined. All this information is used to design an H∞ “mixed sensitivity” and μ (DK) robust control laws for the Ladder multilevel converter. The performance and robustness as voltage regulators of the different controllers are compared through simulation with a classical PI control law.","PeriodicalId":365141,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology","volume":"11 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123973080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A laboratory system to produce a highly accurate and uniform magnetic field for sensor calibration","authors":"G. Mirzaeva, T. Summers, R. Betz","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2012.6210073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2012.6210073","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses one particular issue that the authors came across when developing a DC Motor Duty Meter - a comprehensive condition monitoring tool for large DC motors based on flux density measurement inside the motor air gap. This particular issue crucial for the project was how to calibrate, with high accuracy, a large number of flux density sensors to be used to measure the flux density distribution along the surface of the motor poles. From available literature and IEEE standards, the recommended and most common way to generate a calibration magnetic field is based on Helmholtz coil principle, which in practice is limited to small flux density magnitudes. A method used by the authors and described in this paper utilizes a step test and simple calculations based on Faraday's Law. The novelty of the described method is in particularities of the system, measurements and calculations, which make the method highly immune to typical sources of errors. The method can be used to produce a very accurate and uniform magnetic field with densities ranging from fractions of Tesla to above one Tesla to calibrate flux sensors in this flux range. Its accuracy is only limited by that of a current source, a current probe and a digital oscilloscope. Uniformity of the generated field is discussed and experimentally confirmed. Experimental results obtained within the DC Motor Duty Meter project are included to illustrate correctness of the sensor calibration. Conditions that guarantee the maximum efficiency of the method are discussed. The paper is concluded by a step by step calibration procedure that other researchers may find useful.","PeriodicalId":365141,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129082731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Test generation for large automotive models","authors":"R. Venkatesh, U. Shrotri, P. Darke, P. Bokil","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2012.6210014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2012.6210014","url":null,"abstract":"Modeling tools such as Statemate, Simulink and Stateflow are widely used in the automotive industry to specify low level requirements and design. Systematic testing of models to achieve structural coverage such as state coverage, transition coverage or modified condition decision coverage (MCDC) helps in early defect detection. Automatic generation of test data can help in reducing the cost and improving the quality of systematic testing. Test data can be automatically generated either 1) directly from the models or 2) from the code generated from these models. In this paper we argue for and recommend the second approach. We propose generating test data from C, a formalism-independent intermediate language, as it is widely used in the embedded domain and most modeling tools have C code generators. Accurate representation of floating point number type is possible in C (that being the representation in the final executable) and there are various analysis tools that are available for C. A major challenge in using code to generate test data is scalability. To overcome this problem, we built a tool that combines available static slicing and model-checking techniques to generate test data. We conducted experiments to check if this tool can generate test data for large complex models from the automotive domain. To demonstrate formalism independence and scalability we chose industry size Statemate as well as Simulink/Stateflow models. The set up and the findings of these experiments are also presented in this paper. We successfully generated test data for code sizes as large as 50KLOC and detected several bugs in four already tested industry models thus proving the benefits of this approach.","PeriodicalId":365141,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128731150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Papagiannakis, V. Chatziathanasiou, I. Papagiannopoulos, G. Demey, B. Więcek
{"title":"Electrothermal analysis of overhead power lines","authors":"A. Papagiannakis, V. Chatziathanasiou, I. Papagiannopoulos, G. Demey, B. Więcek","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2012.6209984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2012.6209984","url":null,"abstract":"In this work a complete coupled electrothermal analysis of overhead power lines is presented. The electromagnetic field problem is solved analytically for both the AAC and ACSR cases. The Joule losses thus computed are input to the thermal problem yielding the analytical expression of the thermal impedance. A subsequent novel dynamic thermal analysis of the almost periodic load variations during an extended time period allows the prediction of temperature fluctuations (value and delay) and the prevention of the line expansion and/or overheating.","PeriodicalId":365141,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116830392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Connectivity-aware coordination of robotic networks for area coverage optimization","authors":"Y. Stergiopoulos, Y. Kantaros, A. Tzes","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2012.6209909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2012.6209909","url":null,"abstract":"The scope of this paper is the development of a distributed control scheme for mobile sensor networks in order to optimize coverage performance over a region of interest, while simultaneously guarantee information flow among neighbouring nodes via valid communication links. The nodes evolve in time in order to increase network coverage via distributed information acquired from their neighbours. Unlike previous works, the communication radii of the nodes are assumed fixed and less than twice the sensing ones, imposing an extra constraint concerning connectivity preservation in the overall problem formulation. Efficiency of the proposed scheme is further confirmed via simulation studies.","PeriodicalId":365141,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115590045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. J. Delgado, J. Garcia, C. L. Tarrida, J. Quero, P. Ortega, L. Terés, F. Serra-Graells, E. Cabruja
{"title":"Integrated design of a smart analog sun sensor with CMOS technology","authors":"F. J. Delgado, J. Garcia, C. L. Tarrida, J. Quero, P. Ortega, L. Terés, F. Serra-Graells, E. Cabruja","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2012.6209935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2012.6209935","url":null,"abstract":"This paper shows the design of a miniaturized two-axis sun sensor for industrial application, using a CMOS proprietary technology. From a previous design, some changes have been proposed in order to improve the performance of the sun sensors. The integration of the sensing elements and the adaptation circuit in the same silicon die reduces the size an order of magnitude. Flip-chip technology is used to bond the cover glass and the sensing elements, increasing the accuracy of the measurements. Third, a self-tuning structure of amplifiers allows adapting sensor response to different lighting conditions.","PeriodicalId":365141,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114461053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}