Abnormality diagnosing method and abnormality diagnosing system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10408707-B2
Application number	US-201715664525-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 31, 2017
Priority date	Feb 18, 2015
Publication date	Sep 10, 2019
Grant date	Sep 10, 2019

Abstract

An abnormality diagnosing method includes a model generation step of generating a simulation model of a monitoring target, an operation start step of starting an operation of the monitoring target, a measurement step of measuring an internal state quantity in the operating state of the monitoring target and extracting a measured value, a prediction step of inputting into the simulation model same control input value used in the operating state of the monitoring target and calculating a predicted value of the internal state quantity of the monitoring target, a Mahalanobis distance calculation step of calculating a Mahalanobis distance from a difference between the measured value and the predicted value, and an abnormality diagnosis step of diagnosing whether the operating state of the monitoring target is abnormal based on the Mahalanobis distance.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of diagnosing an abnormality comprising:
generating a simulation model of a monitoring target configured to be operated based on a control value input to the monitoring target;
measuring an internal state quantity of the monitoring target in an operating state as a measured value;
calculating a predicted value of the internal state quantity of the monitoring target by inputting a value, which is same as the control value input to the monitoring target in the operating state, into the simulation model;
calculating a Mahalanobis distance based on an error vector that includes, as components thereof, a difference between the measured value and the predicted value and an integral value of the difference in a predetermined period in the operating state of the monitoring target; and
diagnosing whether the operating state of the monitoring target is abnormal based on the Mahalanobis distance.

2. The method of diagnosing an abnormality according to claim 1 , wherein the predicted value is calculated based on the last value of the measured values successively measured.

3. The method of diagnosing an abnormality according to claim 1 , wherein the monitoring target is an engine for reusable spacecraft, and the internal state quantity includes at least one of a combustion pressure, a regenerative cooling outlet temperature, a fuel pump rotation frequency, an oxidant pump rotation frequency, a fuel pump outlet pressure, and an oxidant pump outlet pressure.

4. A system for diagnosing an abnormality comprising:
a simulation model that simulates a monitoring target configured to be operated based on a control value input to the monitoring target;
a measuring unit configured to measure an internal state quantity in an operating state of the monitoring target as a measured value;
a controlling unit configured to transmit the control value to the monitoring target and transmit a value, which is same as the control value, to the simulation model; and
a diagnosing device that calculates a Mahalanobis distance based on an error vector that includes, as components thereof, a difference between a predicted value calculated by the simulation model and the measured value measured by the measuring unit and an integral value of the difference in a predetermined period in the operating state of the monitoring target, and diagnoses whether the operating state of the monitoring target is abnormal based on the Mahalanobis distance.

5. The system for diagnosing an abnormality according to claim 4 , wherein the simulation model calculates the predicted value based on the last value of the measured values successively measured.

6. The system for diagnosing an abnormality according to claim 4 , wherein the monitoring target is an engine for reusable spacecraft.

7. The system for diagnosing an abnormality according to claim 6 , wherein the internal state quantity includes at least one of a combustion pressure, a regenerative cooling outlet temperature, a fuel pump rotation frequency, an oxidant pump rotation frequency, a fuel pump outlet pressure, and an oxidant pump outlet pressure.

Assignees

• Ihi Corp

Inventors

• Mori Hatsuo
• Mizukoshi Noriyoshi
• Ogai Takashi
• Maru Yusuke
• Yamamoto Takayuki
• Takeuchi Shinsuke
• Nonaka Satoshi
• Yagishita Tsuyoshi

Classifications

• G06F30/20

  Design optimisation, verification or simulation (optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30) · CPC title

• G05B23/0243 Primary

  model based detection method, e.g. first-principles knowledge model · CPC title

• B64G1/52

  Protection, safety or emergency devices; Survival aids · CPC title

• G01M15/02 Primary

  Details or accessories of testing apparatus · CPC title

• G06F17/18

  for evaluating statistical data {, e.g. average values, frequency distributions, probability functions, regression analysis (forecasting specially adapted for a specific administrative, business or logistic context G06Q10/04)} · CPC title