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  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
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34 Pages

Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Industry 4.0: A Review on Challenges and Opportunities

  • Denis Leite,
  • Emmanuel Andrade,
  • Diego Rativa and
  • Alexandre M. A. Maciel

25 December 2024

Integrating Machine Learning (ML) in industrial settings has become a cornerstone of Industry 4.0, aiming to enhance production system reliability and efficiency through Real-Time Fault Detection and Diagnosis (RT-FDD). This paper conducts a comprehe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,043 Views
22 Pages

25 July 2023

Condition monitoring in electric motor drives is essential for operation continuity. This article provides a review of fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) methods for electric motor drives. It first covers various types of faults, their mechanisms, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
13,508 Views
30 Pages

Multimodal Large Language Model-Based Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Context of Industry 4.0

  • Khalid M. Alsaif,
  • Aiiad A. Albeshri,
  • Maher A. Khemakhem and
  • Fathy E. Eassa

12 December 2024

In this paper, a novel multimodal large language model-based fault detection and diagnosis framework that addresses the limitations of traditional fault detection and diagnosis approaches is proposed. The proposed framework leverages the Generative P...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,413 Views
20 Pages

Hierarchical Deep LSTM for Fault Detection and Diagnosis for a Chemical Process

  • Piyush Agarwal,
  • Jorge Ivan Mireles Gonzalez,
  • Ali Elkamel and
  • Hector Budman

1 December 2022

A hierarchical structure based on a Deep LSTM Supervised Autoencoder Neural Network (Deep LSTM-SAE NN) is presented for the detection and classification of faults in industrial plants. The proposed methodology has the ability to classify incipient fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
178 Citations
10,917 Views
17 Pages

Fault Detection and Diagnosis Using Combined Autoencoder and Long Short-Term Memory Network

  • Pangun Park,
  • Piergiuseppe Di Marco,
  • Hyejeon Shin and
  • Junseong Bang

23 October 2019

Fault detection and diagnosis is one of the most critical components of preventing accidents and ensuring the system safety of industrial processes. In this paper, we propose an integrated learning approach for jointly achieving fault detection and f...

  • Review
  • Open Access
60 Citations
7,569 Views
19 Pages

18 September 2019

The use of robots has increased significantly in the recent years; rapidly expending to numerous applications. These sophisticated machines are susceptible to different types of faults that might endanger the robot or its surroundings. These faults m...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,528 Views
16 Pages

8 December 2021

Today’s deep learning strategies require ever-increasing computational efforts and demand for very large amounts of labelled data. Providing such expensive resources for machine diagnosis is highly challenging. Transfer learning recently emerge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
372 Views
19 Pages

A Multi-Source Data-Driven Fault Detection and Diagnosis Method for Pumps

  • Jiefan Gu,
  • Hongming Li,
  • Chunlin Gong,
  • Hengsheng Jia,
  • Wei Luo,
  • Peng Xu,
  • Linxue Li,
  • Kan Chen,
  • Leqi Zhu and
  • Renrong Ding

11 December 2025

Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) in pumps is crucial for building energy management by detecting the abnormal operation status, increasing the service life of equipment, and enhancing the energy performance of buildings. Most FDD methods predomina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,198 Views
20 Pages

In the event of mechanical equipment failure, the fault may not belong to any known category, and existing deep learning methods often misclassify such faults into a known class, leading to erroneous fault diagnosis. In order to address the challenge...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,051 Views
28 Pages

Structural Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Combine Harvesters: A Critical Review

  • Haiyang Wang,
  • Liyun Lao,
  • Honglei Zhang,
  • Zhong Tang,
  • Pengfei Qian and
  • Qi He

20 June 2025

Combine harvesters, as essential equipment in agricultural engineering, frequently experience structural faults due to their complex structure and harsh working conditions, which severely affect their reliability and operational efficiency, leading t...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,447 Views
20 Pages

Air Conditioning Systems Fault Detection and Diagnosis-Based Sensing and Data-Driven Approaches

  • Abdellatif Elmouatamid,
  • Brian Fricke,
  • Jian Sun and
  • Philip W. T. Pong

15 June 2023

The air conditioning (AC) system is the primary building end-use contributor to the peak demand for energy. The energy consumed by this system has grown as fast as it has in the last few decades, not only in the residential section but also in the in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,173 Views
16 Pages

An Automated Machine Learning Approach for Real-Time Fault Detection and Diagnosis

  • Denis Leite,
  • Aldonso Martins,
  • Diego Rativa,
  • Joao F. L. De Oliveira and
  • Alexandre M. A. Maciel

17 August 2022

This work presents a novel Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) approach for Real-Time Fault Detection and Diagnosis (RT-FDD). The approach’s particular characteristics are: it uses only data that are commonly available in industrial automation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,506 Views
19 Pages

Cross Domain Data Generation for Smart Building Fault Detection and Diagnosis

  • Dan Li,
  • Yudong Xu,
  • Yuxun Zhou,
  • Chao Gou and
  • See-Kiong Ng

26 October 2022

Benefiting extensively from the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor network technologies, the modern smart building achieves thermal comfort. It prevents energy wastage by performing automatic Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) to maintain the good...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,128 Views
25 Pages

20 January 2025

Despite their significant environmental benefits, solar photovoltaic (PV) systems are susceptible to malfunctions and performance degradation. This paper addresses detecting and diagnosing faults from a dataset representing a 250 kW PV power plant wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,101 Views
24 Pages

29 September 2023

Aiming at the problem of current equipment fault diagnosis models based on deep learning being unable to automatically identify new class faults according to the updated fault data, in this paper we propose an incremental single-class fault diagnosis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
890 Views
24 Pages

Euclidean Distance-Based Tree Algorithm for Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Photovoltaic Systems

  • Youssouf Mouleloued,
  • Kamel Kara,
  • Aissa Chouder,
  • Abdelhadi Aouaichia and
  • Santiago Silvestre

1 April 2025

In this paper, a new methodology for fault detection and diagnosis in photovoltaic systems is proposed. This method employs a novel Euclidean distance-based tree algorithm to classify various considered faults. Unlike the decision tree, which require...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,020 Views
23 Pages

A Review of Statistical-Based Fault Detection and Diagnosis with Probabilistic Models

  • Yanting Zhu,
  • Shunyi Zhao,
  • Yuxuan Zhang,
  • Chengxi Zhang and
  • Jin Wu

8 April 2024

As industrial processes grow increasingly complex, fault identification becomes challenging, and even minor errors can significantly impact both productivity and system safety. Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) has emerged as a crucial strategy for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
76 Citations
24,976 Views
33 Pages

Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) is of utmost importance in ensuring the safety and reliability of electric vehicles (EVs). The EV’s power train and energy storage, namely the electric motor drive and battery system, are critical components...

  • Review
  • Open Access
90 Citations
15,962 Views
32 Pages

On the Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Railway Switch and Crossing Systems: An Overview

  • Moussa Hamadache,
  • Saikat Dutta,
  • Osama Olaby,
  • Ramakrishnan Ambur,
  • Edward Stewart and
  • Roger Dixon

27 November 2019

Railway switch and crossing (S&C) systems have a very complex structure that requires not only a large number of components (such as rails, check rails, switches, crossings, turnout bearers, slide chair, etc.) but also different types of componen...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,829 Views
50 Pages

Fault Detection and Diagnosis Encyclopedia for Building Systems: A Systematic Review

  • Simon P. Melgaard,
  • Kamilla H. Andersen,
  • Anna Marszal-Pomianowska,
  • Rasmus L. Jensen and
  • Per K. Heiselberg

15 June 2022

This review aims to provide an up-to-date, comprehensive, and systematic summary of fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) in building systems. The latter was performed through a defined systematic methodology with the final selection of 221 studies. Th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,562 Views
25 Pages

10 February 2019

Refrigerant charge faults have a great adverse effect on the performance of heat pumps and must therefore be detected and diagnosed early in real time. In this study, the effect of refrigerant charge faults on a water-to-water heat pump is experiment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,350 Views
17 Pages

9 July 2021

With the widespread attention and research of distributed photovoltaic (PV) systems, the fault detection and diagnosis problems of distributed PV systems has become increasingly prominent. To this end, a distributed PV array fault diagnosis method ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
508 Views
17 Pages

Gear Target Detection and Fault Diagnosis System Based on Hierarchical Annotation Training

  • Haojie Huang,
  • Qixin Liang,
  • Rui Wu,
  • Dan Yang,
  • Jiaorao Wang,
  • Rong Zheng and
  • Zhezhuang Xu

30 September 2025

Gears are the core components of transmission systems, and their health status is critical to the safety and stability of the entire system. In order to efficiently identify the typical fault types such as missing teeth and broken teeth in gears, thi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,239 Views
21 Pages

18 April 2023

An appropriate microclimate is one of the most important factors of a healthy and comfortable life. The microclimate of a place is determined by the temperature, humidity and speed of the air. Those factors determine how a person feels thermal comfor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,319 Views
16 Pages

The development of health monitoring technology for liquid rocket engines (LREs) can effectively improve the safety and reliability of launch vehicles, which has important theoretical and engineering significance. Therefore, we propose a fault detect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,191 Views
17 Pages

1 October 2025

The increasing sophistication of grid-connected photovoltaic (GCPV) systems necessitates advanced fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) methods to ensure operation efficiency and security. In this paper, a novel two-stage hybrid AI architecture is anal...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
743 Views
2 Pages

The growing significance of photovoltaic (PV) monitoring systems and diagnostic methodologies is evident in their role in enhancing the power generation, efficiency, and durability of photovoltaic systems. The operational efficacy of these systems is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,686 Views
21 Pages

22 November 2022

Most methodologies for fault detection and diagnosis in prognostics and health management (PHM) systems use machine learning (ML) or deep learning (DL), in which either some features are extracted beforehand (in the case of typical ML approaches) or...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,028 Views
22 Pages

State-of-the-Art Methodologies for Self-Fault Detection, Diagnosis and Evaluation (FDDE) in Residential Heat Pumps

  • Francesco Pelella,
  • Adelso Flaviano Passarelli,
  • Belén Llopis-Mengual,
  • Luca Viscito,
  • Emilio Navarro-Peris and
  • Alfonso William Mauro

23 June 2025

The European Union’s 2050 targets for decarbonization and electrification are promoting the widespread integration of heat pumps for space heating, cooling, and domestic hot water in buildings. However, their energy and environmental performanc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
873 Views
26 Pages

Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Human-Centric Robotic Actuation in Healthcare: Methods, Failure Modes, and a Validation Framework

  • Camelia Adela Maican,
  • Cristina Floriana Pană,
  • Nicolae Răzvan Vrăjitoru,
  • Daniela Maria Pătrașcu-Pană and
  • Virginia Maria Rădulescu

21 November 2025

This review synthesises fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) methods for robotic actuation in healthcare, where precise, compliant, and safe physical human–robot interaction (pHRI) is essential. Actuator families—harmonic-drive electric tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
7,295 Views
15 Pages

7 December 2021

The malfunctioning of the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system is considered to be one of the main challenges in modern buildings. Due to the complexity of the building management system (BMS) with operational data input from a la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,962 Views
30 Pages

30 November 2020

In prognostics and health management (PHM), the majority of fault detection and diagnosis is performed by adopting segregated methodology, where electrical faults are detected using motor current signature analysis (MCSA), while mechanical faults are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
4,506 Views
14 Pages

Genetic-Algorithm-Based Neural Network for Fault Detection and Diagnosis: Application to Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems

  • Amal Hichri,
  • Mansour Hajji,
  • Majdi Mansouri,
  • Kamaleldin Abodayeh,
  • Kais Bouzrara,
  • Hazem Nounou and
  • Mohamed Nounou

24 August 2022

Modern photovoltaic (PV) systems have received significant attention regarding fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) for enhancing their operation by boosting their dependability, availability, and necessary safety. As a result, the problem of FDD in g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,285 Views
21 Pages

26 November 2023

Owing to the rapid expansion of data science, data-driven methods have emerged as a dominant trend in chiller fault detection and diagnosis (FDD). Most of these methods prioritize feature selection to achieve optimal diagnostic performance. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,150 Views
25 Pages

10 July 2025

Ensuring the reliability and robustness of spacecraft systems remains a key challenge, particularly given the limited feasibility of continuous real-time monitoring during on-orbit operations. In the domain of Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,050 Views
31 Pages

17 July 2015

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been utilized for node fault diagnosis in the fire detection field since the 1990s. However, the traditional methods have some problems, including complicated system structures, intensive computation needs, unstea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,602 Views
19 Pages

17 August 2018

This paper addresses the application of an image recognition technique for the detection and diagnosis of ball bearing faults in rotating electrical machines (REMs). The conventional bearing fault detection and diagnosis (BFDD) methods rely on extrac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
175 Views
24 Pages

14 January 2026

Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems account for a significant portion of building energy consumption and play a crucial role in maintaining indoor comfort. However, hidden faults in air-handling units (AHUs) often lead to energy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,027 Views
34 Pages

24 September 2019

The correct behavior of spacecraft components is the foundation of unhindered mission operation. However, no technical system is free of wear and degradation. A malfunction of one single component might significantly alter the behavior of the whole s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,233 Views
19 Pages

Effective Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Power Converters in Wind Turbine Systems Using KPCA-Based BiLSTM

  • Zahra Yahyaoui,
  • Mansour Hajji,
  • Majdi Mansouri,
  • Kamaleldin Abodayeh,
  • Kais Bouzrara and
  • Hazem Nounou

23 August 2022

The current work presents an effective fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) technique in wind energy converter (WEC) systems. The proposed FDD framework merges the benefits of kernel principal component analysis (KPCA) model and the bidirectional long...

  • Article
  • Open Access
712 Views
10 Pages

28 August 2025

In the field of robotic fault detection, although the random forest (RF) algorithm is widely adopted, its limited accuracy remains a critical constraint in practical engineering applications. To address this technical challenge, this study proposes a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
664 Views
25 Pages

24 December 2025

Turbocharged diesel engines are widely used for the propulsion and as the generators for powering auxiliary systems in marine applications. Many works were published on the development of diagnosis tools for the engines using data from simulation mod...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,928 Views
35 Pages

Review of Fault Detection and Diagnosis Methods in Power Plants: Algorithms, Architectures, and Trends

  • Camelia Adela Maican,
  • Cristina Floriana Pană,
  • Daniela Maria Pătrașcu-Pană and
  • Virginia Maria Rădulescu

5 June 2025

Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) in power plant systems is a rapidly evolving field driven by the increasing complexity of industrial infrastructure and the demand for reliability, safety, and predictive maintenance. This review presents a structu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,193 Views
19 Pages

Rotorcrafts experience severe vibrations during operation. To ensure the safety of rotorcrafts, it is necessary to perform anomaly detection to detect small-scale structural faults in major components. To accurately detect small-scale faults before t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,247 Views
24 Pages

12 August 2021

Aiming at the lack of reliable gradual fault detection and abnormal condition alarm and evaluation ability in the plasticizing process of single-base gun propellant, a fault detection and diagnosis method based on normalized mutual information weight...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,421 Views
24 Pages

1 April 2021

Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) systems enable high cost savings and energy savings that could have economic and environmental impact. This study aims to develop and validate a data-driven FDD system for a chiller. The system uses historical oper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,154 Views
24 Pages

Semi-Supervised Transfer Learning Methodology for Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Air-Handling Units

  • Victor Martinez-Viol,
  • Eva M. Urbano,
  • Jose E. Torres Rangel,
  • Miguel Delgado-Prieto and
  • Luis Romeral

2 September 2022

Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems are the major energy consumers among buildings’ equipment. Reliable fault detection and diagnosis schemes can effectively reduce their energy consumption and maintenance costs. In this re...

  • Review
  • Open Access
295 Views
52 Pages

Modern engineering systems require reliable and timely Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) to ensure operational safety and resilience. Traditional model-based and rule-based approaches, although interpretable, exhibit limited scalability and adaptab...

  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
10,865 Views
32 Pages

Intelligence in Industry 4.0 has led to the development of smart buildings with various control systems for data collection, efficient optimization, and fault detection and diagnosis (FDD). However, buildings, especially with regard to heating, venti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,481 Views
20 Pages

Fault Detection and Diagnosis Based on Unsupervised Machine Learning Methods: A Kaplan Turbine Case Study

  • Miguel A. C. Michalski,
  • Arthur H. A. Melani,
  • Renan F. da Silva,
  • Gilberto F. M. de Souza and
  • Fernando H. Hamaji

23 December 2021

From the breakdown of the Kaplan rotor of a hydrogenerator unit and the monitored data collected during its operation before such a failure, this work presents a post-occurrence data analysis in which a previously developed hybrid method based on uns...

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