System and methods for automated plant asset failure detection
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1. A system for performing failure signature recognition training for at least one unit of equipment, the system comprising:
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a network interface configured to;
receive a sensor data signal including sensor data relating to the unit of equipment;
receive a failure information signal including failure information relating to equipment failures; and
one or more processors in communication with the memory and the network interface, the one or more processors being configured by computer code to analyze the sensor data in view of the failure information in order to develop at least one learning agent for performing failure signature recognition with respect to the at least one unit of equipment wherein machine learning is used during a training phase to adjust parameters of the failure agent to successfully predict failures identified by the failure information and to bias the parameters to avoid at least one of false positive errors and false negative errors wherein the one or more processors are further configured by the computer code to store the sensor data within a memory wherein the sensor data covers a plurality of intervals and is stored along with metadata to flag ones of the plurality of intervals associated with failure intervals and ones of the plurality of intervals associated with normal intervals.
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Abstract
A system for performing failure signature recognition training for at least one unit of equipment. The system includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured by computer code to receive sensor data relating to the unit of equipment and to receive failure information relating to equipment failures. The processor is further configured to analyze the sensor data in view of the failure information in order to develop at least one learning agent for performing failure signature recognition with respect to the at least one unit of equipment.
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1. A system for performing failure signature recognition training for at least one unit of equipment, the system comprising:
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memory; a network interface configured to; receive a sensor data signal including sensor data relating to the unit of equipment; receive a failure information signal including failure information relating to equipment failures; and one or more processors in communication with the memory and the network interface, the one or more processors being configured by computer code to analyze the sensor data in view of the failure information in order to develop at least one learning agent for performing failure signature recognition with respect to the at least one unit of equipment wherein machine learning is used during a training phase to adjust parameters of the failure agent to successfully predict failures identified by the failure information and to bias the parameters to avoid at least one of false positive errors and false negative errors wherein the one or more processors are further configured by the computer code to store the sensor data within a memory wherein the sensor data covers a plurality of intervals and is stored along with metadata to flag ones of the plurality of intervals associated with failure intervals and ones of the plurality of intervals associated with normal intervals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system for performing operations relating to anomaly detection for at least one unit of equipment, the system comprising:
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a memory; a network interface configured to; receive a sensor data signal including sensor data relating to the unit of equipment; receive a failure information signal including failure information relating to one or more equipment failures; one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors being configured by computer code to; analyze the sensor data over time periods other than periods encompassing the one or more equipment failures to determine one or more normal operating states of the at least one unit of equipment; train an anomaly agent to detect an anomaly when a current operating state of the at least one unit of equipment is outside of the one or more normal operating states wherein the anomaly agent utilizes one of a self-organizing map and a Restricted Boltzman Machine (RBM) to model the one or more normal operating states; activate the anomaly agent to monitor additional sensor data relating to the unit of equipment; provide the additional sensor data to the self-organizing map; perform a comparison of an error associated with a classification of the additional sensor data by the self-organizing map to a maximum error; and detect an anomaly condition based upon the comparison. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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17. A system for performing failure signature recognition training for at least one unit of equipment, the system comprising:
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memory; a network interface configured to; receive a sensor data signal including sensor data relating to the unit of equipment receive a failure information signal including failure information relating to equipment failures; and one or more processors in communication with the memory and the network interface, the one or more processors being configured by computer code to analyze the sensor data in view of the failure information in order to develop at least one learning agent for performing failure signature recognition with respect to the at least one unit of equipment wherein machine learning is used during a training phase to adjust parameters of the failure agent to successfully predict failures identified by the failure information and to bias the parameters to avoid at least one of false positive errors and false negative errors wherein the one or more processors are further configured by the computer code to tune a prediction interval over which the sensor data is evaluated by evaluating failure prediction accuracy over multiple interval durations.
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18. A system for performing failure signature recognition training for at least one unit of equipment, the system comprising:
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memory; a network interface configured to; receive a sensor data signal including sensor data relating to the unit of equipment; receive a failure information signal including failure information relating to equipment failures; and one or more processors in communication with the memory and the network interface, the one or more processors being configured by computer code to analyze the sensor data in view of the failure information in order to develop at least one learning agent for performing failure signature recognition with respect to the at least one unit of equipment wherein machine learning is used during a training phase to adjust parameters of the failure agent to achieve a desired potential failure to failure (P-F) interval. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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