Computer Techniques for Solving Electric Circuits for Fault Isolation

We are concerned in this paper with use of a digital computer for automatic checkout and fault isolation of electrical networks. The work reported here represents a refinement and extension of work done in a previous paper. Section 2 to follow gives a discussion of our circuit test philosophy and some of its immediate implications. Section 3 contains a review of previous work giving the required manipulations in compact matrix form. A new program for extended implementation of this procedure is given in section 4. Some results obtained by this program are presented in section 5. Section 6 presents a method whereby all analysis required for electric networks can be performed automatically working only from basic schematic diagram information. Conclusions and some future research plans are outlined in section 7.