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Sensor placement determination in system health monitoring process based on dual information risk and uncertainty criteria

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  • Farzin Salehpour-Oskouei
  • Mohammad Pourgol-Mohammad

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Validity of sensor data is a challenge in system monitoring due to stochastic nature of failure occurrence. The quantity and location of sensors affect the system health information, while sensor malfunction causes misleading results about the system condition. Occurred economic losses are irrecoverable expenses in respect to the monitoring system as well as the system failure. In this study, a dual index approach is proposed for the determination of sensor placement scenarios based on two criteria: (1) uncertainty of sensor information and (2) risk of sensor failure. With about variation of environmental factors conditions (e.g. temperature) and their failure threshold characterization, system failure model is developed and analyzed by a proposed efficient Monte Carlo simulation. Statistical variance of sensor information about estimating of system state as the quantitative uncertainty measure of choice in this research is estimated according to the information value that each possible sensor placement scenario provides through sensor information. In the next phase, risk index is determined based on sensor malfunction and corresponding quantifiable losses through both failure costs and maintenance expenditure. All feasible combinations of sensor failures are considered in the risk model. Finally, a combinatorial criterion is determined through information entropy calculation, which considers both indexes proposed above simultaneously. Sensor placement scenarios are comparatively prioritized based on this criterion. Accordingly, the technical directions are provided for suitability of the criteria for prioritizing sensor arrangement in various systems with different reliability-based characteristics. As a case study, determination of sensor placement is demonstrated on a typical steam turbine. According to the low variation of both information uncertainty and risk indexes, it is concluded that the combinatorial index is the proper criterion for sensor placement determination in health monitoring process of the steam turbine.

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  • Farzin Salehpour-Oskouei & Mohammad Pourgol-Mohammad, 2018. "Sensor placement determination in system health monitoring process based on dual information risk and uncertainty criteria," Journal of Risk and Reliability, , vol. 232(1), pages 65-81, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:risrel:v:232:y:2018:i:1:p:65-81
    DOI: 10.1177/1748006X17742766
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