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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2005
Avinash Vinayak Taware, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Fei Teng, Shanghai, CN;
Paul Teeporn Tanpitukpongse, Wilmington, DE (US);
Avinash Vinayak Taware, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Fei Teng, Shanghai, CN;
Paul Teeporn Tanpitukpongse, Wilmington, DE (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
In accordance with an implementation of the present technique, a method for processing data is disclosed. The method involves analyzing consistency of sensor readings obtained from a plurality of sensors monitoring a device, where each sensor reading is indicative of at least one operational parameter of the device. The method also involves assigning a confidence value to each of the sensor readings, where the confidence value is indicative of an operational condition of one of the plurality of sensors that provided the sensor reading. The method also includes weighting each sensor reading based on the confidence value assigned to the sensor reading to determine an acceptance or a rejection of the sensor reading and fusing the sensor readings that are accepted to obtain a fused sensor reading corresponding to the operational parameter measured by the sensors on the device.