MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS FOR CONNECTIONIST DIAGNOSIS OF TECHNICAL PROCESSES

The paper summarizes the requirements for a new family of monitoring and diagnostic systems, characterized among others by networking capability, high computing speed and adaptive learning ability. The diagnostic process is regarded as a pattern recognition procedure. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) or connectionist models and their pattern recognition abilities are illustrated. The back propagation technique as the most frequently used learning algorithm for multi-layered ANNs is outlined together with some acceleration methods. Neural network forms of traditional pattern recognition approaches are described. which usually mean a direct determination of the networks' parameters. The paper gives the first results of investigations comparing the learning and recognition performance of frequently used traditional pattern recognition techniques, back propagation networks and a network based on the condensed nearest-neighbour concept, developed at the University of Paderborn. Two "neuro monitoring and diagnostic systems" based on parallel processor structures and incorporating neural network techniques for learning and classification, being developed at the Institute for Electrical Measurement, University of Paderborn, are presented and compared in the paper.