Device for aiding the locating of failure of a complex system
First Claim
1. A device for aiding the locating of a failure of a complex system comprising a plurality of interlinked elements, which device comprises:
- at least one database storing diagnostic aid rules;
a detector that detects a functional failure, if any, of said complex system and provides, upon detection of said failure, information relating to the origin of said failure;
a central unit that determines, for any said failure detected, at least on the basis of said diagnostic aid rules stored in said database and of the information provided by said detector, the element or elements of the complex system which are at the origin of said failure, as well as for each element thus determined the corresponding probability that it is at the origin of said failure;
a presentation section that presents to an operator, for any said failure, the element or elements determined as being at the origin of the failure together with on each occasion the corresponding probability; and
an updating section that updates the database under the control of an operator, wherein;
said central unit determines, for an element at the origin of said failure, the corresponding probability with the aid of the ratio of the sum of the failure rates of all the failures covered by a test in said element to the sum of the failure rates of all the failures covered by this test in the entire complex system.
2 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A device for aiding the location of a failure within a complex system may include a database that stores diagnostic aid rules; a detector that detects a failure, if any, of the complex system and provides, upon a failure, information relating to the origin of this failure; and a central unit that determines, for any failure detected, on the basis of the diagnostic aid rules and the failure origination information, the element or elements of the complex system that may have caused the failure. Additionally, the central unit determines the corresponding probability that each element caused the failure for presentation to a user.
42 Citations
28 Claims
-
1. A device for aiding the locating of a failure of a complex system comprising a plurality of interlinked elements, which device comprises:
-
at least one database storing diagnostic aid rules; a detector that detects a functional failure, if any, of said complex system and provides, upon detection of said failure, information relating to the origin of said failure; a central unit that determines, for any said failure detected, at least on the basis of said diagnostic aid rules stored in said database and of the information provided by said detector, the element or elements of the complex system which are at the origin of said failure, as well as for each element thus determined the corresponding probability that it is at the origin of said failure; a presentation section that presents to an operator, for any said failure, the element or elements determined as being at the origin of the failure together with on each occasion the corresponding probability; and an updating section that updates the database under the control of an operator, wherein; said central unit determines, for an element at the origin of said failure, the corresponding probability with the aid of the ratio of the sum of the failure rates of all the failures covered by a test in said element to the sum of the failure rates of all the failures covered by this test in the entire complex system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
-
-
15. A device for aiding the locating of a failure of a complex system comprising a plurality of interlinked elements, which device comprises:
-
at least one database storing diagnostic aid rules; a detector that detects a functional failure, if any, of said complex system and provides, upon detection of said failure, information relating to the origin of said failure; a central unit that determines, for any said failure detected, at least on the basis of said diagnostic aid rules stored in said database and of the information provided by said detector, the element or elements of the complex system which are at the origin of said failure, as well as for each element thus determined the corresponding probability that it is at the origin of said failure; a presentation section that presents to an operator, for any said failure, the element or elements determined as being at the origin of the failure together with on each occasion the corresponding probability; and an updating section that updates the database under the control of an operator, wherein; said central unit determines, for an element C at the origin of said failure, the corresponding probability with the aid of the ratio Σ
C/Σ
total, in which;Σ
C is a sum characteristic of the element C and corresponds to the sum of the failure products of the various components of said element C;the failure product of a particular component corresponds to the product of result parameters of various tests monitoring the element of which said particular component forms part, the result parameter of a test being equal; to 1, if the test does not monitor this component; to 0, if the test monitors this component, but does not detect any fault; to the failure rate of said component, if the test monitors this component and detects a fault; and Σ
total corresponds to the sum of the various sums characteristic of all the elements of the complex system which are monitored by these tests. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
-
Specification