Fault Diagnosis Using Petri Nets: a case study

Published in: Megaprojects: Building Infrastructure by Fostering Engineering Collaboration, Efficient and Effective Integration and Innovative Planning: Proceedings of the 10th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology
Date of Conference: July 23-25, 2012
Location of Conference: Panama City, Panama
Authors: Karen Hernández
María Elena Meda Campaña
Refereed Paper: #188

Abstract

The motivation of this work is to ensure that a Discrete Event System continues working after a fault occurs, since some systems, like power plants, should not stop working because they can generate service interruptions that cause severe economic impacts and even dangers. So, the interest of this paper is to analyze the Discrete Event System model to detect faults using Interpreted Petri nets and here is presents a case study about how can be uses a diagnosis scheme in order to identify if there exists a fault, considering permanent and control faults that are modeled with Petri nets.