Fuzzy C-means clustering of signal functional principal components for post-processing dynamic scenarios of a nuclear power plant digital instrumentation and control system

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 415-425

  Di Maio, Francesco ^a   Secchi, Piercesare ^a   Vantini, Simone ^a   Zio, Enrico ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Digital instrumentation and control faults; dynamic reliability; fault scenarios classification; functional principal components analysis; fuzzy C Means; fuzzy clustering; nuclear power plants

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL INSTRUMENTATION; DYNAMIC RELIABILITY; FAULT SCENARIOS; FUNCTIONAL PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; FUZZY C MEAN; NUCLEAR POWER;

BISMUTH; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; INSTRUMENTS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 79957991948     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2011.2134230     Document Type: Article

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