Fault isolation schemes

Abstract

Fault isolation is one of the central tasks of a fault diagnosis system, a task that can become, by many practical applications, a real challenge for the system designer. Generally speaking, fault isolation is a signal processing process aiming at gaining information about the location of the faults occurred in the process under consideration. Evidently, the complexity of such a signal processing process strongly depends on

• • the number of the possible faults

• • the possible distribution of the faults in the process under consideration

• • the characteristic features of each fault and

• • the available information about the possible faults.