A Bayesian approach to sensor placement optimization and system reliability monitoring

Masoud Pourali and Ali Mosleh

Journal of Risk and Reliability, 2013, vol. 227, issue 3, 327-347

Abstract: Sensors are being increasingly used to monitor the functional state of complex systems. Sensors are used to make observation of physical quantities. The measured quantities are expected to provide information about the state of the system, its subsystems, components, and internal and external physical parameters. A complex system normally requires many sensors to extract required information from the sensed environment. In most cases, the problem of optimal sensor placement is difficult, because it requires optimization under uncertainty. This research developed new algorithms for sensor placement optimization under uncertainty and utilized them in a new system reliability monitoring approach. The overall methodology is designed to answer important questions such as how to infer the reliability of a system based on a limited number of sensor information points at certain subsystems (upward propagation); how to infer the reliability of a subsystem based on knowledge of the reliability of a main system (downward propagation); how to infer the reliability of a subsystem based on knowledge of the reliability of other subsystems (distributed propagation); and what are the optimum locations of sensors to provide the best estimate of system reliability.

Keywords: Bayesian belief network; Bayesian sensor placement optimization; information metric; sensor information vector; system reliability monitoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/1748006X13485663

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