Bonneville Power Administration Communication Alarm Processor expert system:

Technical Report · Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6662779· OSTI ID:6662779

Goeltz, R.; Purucker, S.; Tonn, B. ^[1]; Wiggen, T. ^[2]; MacGregor, D. ^[3]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
2. Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Inc., TN (USA)
3. MacGregor-Bates, Inc., Eugene, OR (USA)

This report describes the Communications Alarm Processor (CAP), a prototype expert system developed for the Bonneville Power Administration by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The system is designed to receive and diagnose alarms from Bonneville's Microwave Communications System (MCS). The prototype encompasses one of seven branches of the communications network and a subset of alarm systems and alarm types from each system. The expert system employs a backward chaining approach to diagnosing alarms. Alarms are fed into the expert system directly from the communication system via RS232 ports and sophisticated alarm filtering and mailbox software. Alarm diagnoses are presented to operators for their review and concurrence before the diagnoses are archived. Statistical software is incorporated to allow analysis of archived data for report generation and maintenance studies. The delivered system resides on a Digital Equipment Corporation VAX 3200 workstation and utilizes Nexpert Object and SAS for the expert system and statistical analysis, respectively. 11 refs., 23 figs., 7 tabs.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/MA
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 6662779
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-11323; ON: DE90014781
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
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EXPERT SYSTEMS
COMMUNICATIONS
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
DATA ACQUISITION
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