Fault Diagnosis for Industrial Alarm Floods Based on Discrete Hidden Markov Model

A fault diagnosis method based on Discrete Hidden Markov Models is proposed in this paper to identify the fault causing alarm flood sequences. The proposed method consists of the following steps: First, the alarm flood data is pre-processed to ensure that all sequences are of uniform length, and a separate Discrete Hidden Markov model is trained for each fault to capture the relationship between the fault and the alarm sequences. Second, given an observation sequence, the log-likelihood probability values under different Discrete Hidden Markov models are calculated and the maximum probability is selected to determine the type of corresponding fault. Last, the feasibility of the proposed method is verified by simulation data obtained from a public industrial model. The results show that the method can effectively identify the faults that trigger alarm floods.