Decentralized and Dynamic Fault Detection Using PCA and Bayesian Inference

This paper proposes a dynamic and decentralized fault detection method. The plant is divided in groups whose members are selected using linear and non-linear modelling techniques. In each group a Principal Component Analysis model does the fault detection, including delayed data to get a dynamic method. Then, a central node fuses the results of each group, using Bayesian Index Criterion (BIC), to get a global detection outcome. The method was tested on a widely used benchmark and compared with other proposal to check its effectiveness.