Fault Diagnosis Based on Belief Rule Base With Considering Attribute Correlation

With the growing demand for high safety in industrial system, fault diagnosis has attracted more and more attention. Currently, belief rule base (BRB) has shown an excellent performance in modeling complex system, where the expert knowledge is used effectively. Existing BRB models are assumed that the inputs of the attributes are independent and the attribute correlation is not taken into account. However, in some engineering system, there is an obvious correlation among these attributes. The correlated attributes may produce redundant information which limits the abilities of attributes to express the accurate information of system. In this paper, a new BRB model with considering attribute correlation (BRB-c) is proposed. Moreover, a decoupling matrix is introduced to eliminate the redundant information from the attributes. The initial parameters of the decoupling matrix are given according to the expert knowledge. And then, when the inputs of the attributes are available, the parameters in the decoupling matrix are trained by an optimization model. The projection covariance matrix adaption evolution strategy is chosen as an optimization algorithm. A practical case study about fault diagnosis of oil pipeline is conducted and the results show that the BRB-c model can diagnose the leak size and leak time of oil pipeline accurately, which can demonstrate that the proposed model can be widely applied in engineering for fault diagnosis.