An Investigation of the Negative Selection Algorithm for Fault Detection in Refrigeration Systems

Supermarkets lose millions of pounds every year through lost trading and stock wastage caused by the failure of refrigerated cabinets. Therefore, a huge commercial market exists for artificially intelligent systems which are able to detect the early symptoms of faults. Previous work in this vein, using real-world data and now in the throes of being deployed commercially, has employed evolved neural networks to predict volumes of temperature and other alarms emerging from refrigeration system controllers, and also to predict likely refrigerant gas loss from such alarm patterns. In this work we turn to the use of in-cabinet temperature data which has recently become available, and the aim is to predict refrigeration system faults from the pattern of in-cabinet temperature over time. We argue that artificial immune system inspired technologies are particularly appropriate for this task. The negative selection algorithm is therefore investigated as a tool to detect anomalous patterns in te...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ICARIS
• Authors: Dan W. Taylor, David Corne
• Keywords: ICARIS 2003, In-cabinet Temperature, In-cabinet Temperature Data, Temperature Data