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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2003
Randall L. Bickford, Orangevale, CA (US);
Randall L. Bickford, Orangevale, CA (US);
Intellectual Assets LLC, Lake Tahoe, NV (US);
Abstract
A system and method for monitoring an apparatus or process asset including creating a process model comprised of a plurality of process submodels each correlative to at least one training data subset partitioned from an unpartitioned training data set and each having an operating mode associated thereto; acquiring a set of observed signal data values from the asset; determining an operating mode of the asset for the set of observed signal data values; selecting a process submodel from the process model as a function of the determined operating mode of the asset; calculating a set of estimated signal data values from the selected process submodel for the determined operating mode; and determining asset status as a function of the calculated set of estimated signal data values for providing asset surveillance and/or control.