Fault classification using time variable ART2-A networks

Increasingly, there is a move towards in-built intelligence for sensors and actuators to integrate "smart" peripheral elements as part of a distributed control system. The utilisation of local intelligence to provide local fault detection and fault tolerance facilitates the incorporation of new variables into the structure of these peripheral elements. How on-line fault classification overcomes the time varying situation is studied here. The main idea is to integrate three ART2-A networks in order to produce a fault classification capable of managing the situation.