Advancing Building Fault Diagnosis Using the Concept of Contextual and Heterogeneous Test

Mahendra Singh, Nguyen Trung Kien, Houda Najeh, Stéphane Ploix and Antoine Caucheteux
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Mahendra Singh: Laboratoire G-SCOP, UMR 5272, 46 Avenue Félix Viallet, 38031 Grenoble, France
Nguyen Trung Kien: Laboratoire G-SCOP, UMR 5272, 46 Avenue Félix Viallet, 38031 Grenoble, France
Houda Najeh: Laboratoire G-SCOP, UMR 5272, 46 Avenue Félix Viallet, 38031 Grenoble, France
Stéphane Ploix: Laboratoire G-SCOP, UMR 5272, 46 Avenue Félix Viallet, 38031 Grenoble, France
Antoine Caucheteux: Cerema Ouest, 23 Avenue de l’Amiral Chauvin, BP 20069-49136 Les Ponts-de- Cé cedex, Angers, France

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 13, 1-22

Abstract: Fault diagnosis and maintenance of a whole-building system is a complex task to perform. A wide range of available building fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) tools are only capable of performing fault detection using behavioral constraints analysis. However, the validity of the detected symptom is always questionable. In this work, we introduce the concept of the contextual test with validity constraints, in the context of building fault diagnostics. Thanks to a common formalization of the proposed heterogeneous tests, rule-, range-, and model-based tests can be combined in the same diagnostic analysis that reduces the whole-building modeling effort. The proposed methodology comprises the minimum diagnostic explanation feature that can significantly improve the knowledge of the building facility manager. A bridge diagnosis approach is used to describe the multiple fault scenarios. The proposed methodology is validated on an experimental building called the center for studies and design of prototypes (CECP) building located in Angers, France.

Keywords: buildings; fault diagnosis; bridge diagnosis; fault detection and isolation (FDI) and logical diagnosis (DX); model validity; consistency and conflict; sensors; contextual test; logical diagnosis; model-based diagnosis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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