Systems and methods for using a corrective action as diagnostic evidence
First Claim
1. A method using a completed corrective action as evidence of a fault by a diagnostic reasoner, comprising:
- receiving equipment status evidence;
determining an equipment fault based on the equipment status evidence;
creating and ranking a list of potential failure modes based at least in part on the determined equipment fault;
recommending a corrective action to correct the equipment fault based at least in part on the ranking of the potential failure modes;
receiving additional equipment status evidence indicating that the recommended corrective action failed to correct the equipment fault;
associating a detection probability and a false negative rate with the failed corrective action to create additional status evidence wherein the false negative rate is equal to a ratio, wherein the numerator of the ratio is equal to the number of times the corrective action was performed on a valid equipment fault minus the number of times the corrective action corrected the valid equipment fault, and the denominator is the number of times the corrective action was performed on a valid equipment fault; and
re-ranking the list of potential failure modes for recommendation of a subsequent corrective action to be performed based on the additional status evidence.
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Abstract
Methods, systems and computing devices are provided for using a completed corrective action as evidence of a fault. The methods, systems and computing devices receive equipment status evidence and determine an equipment fault based on the equipment status evidence. The methods, systems and computing devices also create and rank a list of potential failure modes based at least in part on the determined equipment fault, recommend a corrective action to correct the equipment fault based at least in part on the ranking of the potential failure modes and receiving additional equipment status evidence indicating that the recommended corrective action failed to correct the equipment fault. The methods, systems and computing devices then associate a detection probability and a false negative rate with the failed corrective action to create additional status evidence, and re-rank the list of potential failure modes for subsequent performance based on the additional status evidence.
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21 Claims
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1. A method using a completed corrective action as evidence of a fault by a diagnostic reasoner, comprising:
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receiving equipment status evidence; determining an equipment fault based on the equipment status evidence; creating and ranking a list of potential failure modes based at least in part on the determined equipment fault; recommending a corrective action to correct the equipment fault based at least in part on the ranking of the potential failure modes; receiving additional equipment status evidence indicating that the recommended corrective action failed to correct the equipment fault; associating a detection probability and a false negative rate with the failed corrective action to create additional status evidence wherein the false negative rate is equal to a ratio, wherein the numerator of the ratio is equal to the number of times the corrective action was performed on a valid equipment fault minus the number of times the corrective action corrected the valid equipment fault, and the denominator is the number of times the corrective action was performed on a valid equipment fault; and re-ranking the list of potential failure modes for recommendation of a subsequent corrective action to be performed based on the additional status evidence. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A system configured to use a completed corrective action as evidence of a fault, comprising:
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an equipment status determination means; a computing device configured to; determine an equipment fault based on equipment status evidence received from the equipment status determination means; create and rank a list of potential failure modes based at least in part on the determined equipment fault; receive an indication that a first corrective action for the equipment fault has failed; associate a detection probability and a false negative rate with the failed corrective action thereby creating additional equipment status evidence, wherein the false negative rate is equal to a ratio, wherein the numerator of the ratio is equal to the number of times the corrective action was performed on a valid equipment fault minus the number of times the corrective action corrected the valid equipment fault, and the denominator is the number of times the corrective action was performed on a valid equipment fault; and re-rank and determine a second corrective action based at least in part on the additional equipment status evidence. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A computing device configured to:
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receive equipment status evidence from an equipment status determination means; determine an equipment fault based on the equipment status evidence; create and rank a list of potential failure modes based at least in part on the determined equipment fault; recommend a corrective action to correct the equipment fault based at least in part on the ranking of the potential failure modes from the list; receive an indication that the recommended corrective action failed to correct the equipment fault; associate a detection probability and a false negative rate with the failed corrective action to create additional equipment status evidence, wherein the false negative rate is equal to a ratio, wherein the numerator of the ratio is equal to the number of times the corrective action was performed on a valid equipment fault minus the number of times the corrective action corrected the valid equipment fault, and the denominator is the number of times the corrective action was performed on a valid equipment fault; and re-rank the list of potential failure modes based on the additional equipment status evidence. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer based method using a history of validated faults and completed corrective actions to compute a detection probability and false negative rate for a corrective action associated with an equipment fault model, comprising:
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over a period of time isolating, collecting and analyzing data associated with a corrective action, a corrective action success rate, a modeling error and an actual defect rate in regard to an associated validated fault in a complex system; determining an actual defect rate of a component of the complex system from the data; determining a modeling error of the equipment default model from the data; determining a corrective action success rate from the data; determining a corrective action count from the data; summing the actual defect rate and the modeling error thereby determining that detection ration for the corrective action; and subtracting the corrective action count from the corrective action success rate to determine a difference and dividing the difference by the corrective action count.
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