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Abstract: This paper investigates the problem of track occupancy detection in distributed settings. Track occupancy detection determines which tracks are occupied in a railway system. For each track, the Neyman–Pearson structure is applied to reach the local decision. Globally, it is a multiple hypotheses testing problem. The Bayesian approach is employed to minimize the probability of the global decision error. Based on the prior probabilities of multiple hypotheses and the approximation of the receiving operation characteristic curve of the local detector, a person-by-person optimization method is implemented to obtain the fusion rule and the local strategies off line. The results are illustrated through an example constructed from in situ devices. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: This study proposes a high-efficient approach to identify the piecewise affine (PWA) model. The proposed approach constitutes two major steps, initial estimation and refinement process. In the initial estimation, Hough Transform (HT) is adopted to generate a group of submodel candidates; then a variable-threshold technique is applied to pick up the real submodel. In the refinement process, not only the distance constraint between data points and submodel''s hyperplanes but also the clustering constraint between data points in regression regions are considered. An efficient algorithm is presented to alternately refine the submodel''s parameters and the subregression sets. In the case study, the proposed approach is used to identify the fault model of the track circuit in high-speed railway. Analysis shows that the proposed approach has linear time complexity and exhibits superior data availability in small-sample case. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: In this paper, a multivariate fault prognosis approach for continuous processes with hidden faults is proposed based on statistical process monitoring methods and multivariate time series prediction. It is assumed that the fault is a slowly time-varying autocorrelated process and can be completely reconstructed. Fault magnitude is estimated first via reconstruction, then predicted by a vector AR model with wavelet based denoising. Given the fault direction, a new index is proposed to detect the fault, which integrates fault detection and prognosis together. Case studies on a continuous stirred tank reactor and the Tennessee Eastman process demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]