Model-based Optimal Sensor Placement Approaches to Fuel Cell Stack System Fault Diagnosis*

The problem of optimal sensor placement for FDI consists in determining the set of sensors that minimizes a pre-defined cost function satisfying at the same time a pre-established set of FDI specifications for a given set of faults. This paper recalls three model-based optimal sensor location approaches: an Incremental search, a Heuristic search and a Binary Integer Linear Programming (BILP) formulation. The main contribution of this paper is a comparative study that addresses efficiency, flexibility and other issues. The performance of the approaches is demonstrated by an application to a fuel cell stack system.