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OwnerDidier Willaeys, Abdallah Asseinventors
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The invention relates to a device and method for classifying two-state variables of a cyclically-operating system comprising subunits. The inventive method comprises the following steps: a recording step consisting in recording dated state changes noted for each of the variables during a determined time T; a calculation step consisting in using the aforementioned dated state changes in order to determine, for each of the variables, (i) the different durations (D1) between two consecutive passages to a first state (E1) and (ii) the different durations (D2) between two consecutive passages to a second state (E2), such as to create duration lists (LD1) and (LD2); and a processing step consisting in, for each variable, comparing the different duration lists (LD1) and/or (LD2) to the different duration lists (LD1) and/or (LD2) for the other variables and the number of occurrences thereof, such as to classify said variables into groups, whereby each group corresponds to at least one of the subunits of the system.
A method for classifying two-state variables of a cyclically operating system including subunits characterized in that the following steps are performed:
The classification method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein a step is performed for stopping or changing the operation of one or more subunits in order to distinguish the variables of a subunit with respect to another subunit, the operating cycles of which are linked.
The classification method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein a step for tracking the beginning and the end of the operating cycle of each group is further performed.
The classification method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein from a numerical variable with more than two states, a given number of two-state variables are created, said created variables being classified into a group in order to determine the subunits to which the numerical variable with more than two states belongs.
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