Intelligent fault detection and diagnostics in solar plants

Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications, IDAACS'2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 948-953

  Coleman, Andon ^a   Zalewski, Janusz ^a  

^a FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

data acquisition; fault detection; fault diagnostics; fault tolerance; solar plant

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM; FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSTICS; FAULT DIAGNOSTICS; POTENTIAL FAULTS; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; REAL TIME; SOLAR PLANT;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CONDITION MONITORING; DATA ACQUISITION; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 82955176916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IDAACS.2011.6072914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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