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Techniques in Process Monitoring and Diagnosis 

- A Short Course -

November 28 - December 4, 2002   (12 lectures + exercises)

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Lecturer

Professor Ahmet Palazoglu
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of California
Davis, CA 95616 USA
anpalazoglu@ucdavis.edu
http://www.chms.ucdavis.edu/research/web/pse/ahmet/

On sabbatical leave at
Institute for Systems Theory in Engineering
University of Stuttgart
Pfaffenwaldring 70550 Stuttgart, Germany
palazoglu@ist.uni-stuttgart.de

Time and Place

November 28 - December 4, 2002
Daily lectures: 9:45-11:15 and 11:30- 13:00, additional exercises on two afternoons (probably on the 2nd and 4th day)
First meeting: November 28, 9:30, IST, Pfaffenwaldring 9, 2nd floor

Prerequisites

Basic Statistics

The lecture will be given in English.

Synopsis

Following a brief review of basic statistical concepts, classical statistical process control tools such as Shewhart and EWMA charts are reviewed for comparison with advanced methods that are more appropriate for multivariable processes. Several techniques such as principal components analysis (PCA), partial least squares (PLS), Wavelet analysis, and Hidden Markov Models (HMM) are introduced to provide mathematical background for monitoring tasks. PCA and PLS based methods are presented for monitoring multivariable continuous processes, while contribution plots are used for assisting fault diagnosis.  Trend detection using qualitative signal representation and HMM classification, wavelet-based hidden Markov trees for state estimation and trend classification, and multidimensional classification problems are also included. 

Techniques will be illustrated by hands-on exercises using MATLAB.

Program

November 28 – December 4, 2002

Day 1: Introduction to Statistics, univariate charts (Shewhart, CUSUM, etc.), autocorrelation (Room 9.31)

Day 2: Multivariate statistics, Principal Component Analysis  (PCA), fault diagnosis techniques

Day 3: Regression methods, Partial Least Squares (PLS), sensors

Day 4: Wavelets and signal filtering, Markov processes

Day 5: Fault diagnosis and classification using wavelets and hidden Markov models (HMMs)


For additional information and/or a desired but noncommittal sign up please contact:
Thomas Eißing

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