11th Intl. Summer School on Fault Diagnosis of Complex Systems
Terrasa, July, 13th-17th, 2026
https://diagnosis.cs2ac.upc.edu/
The Spanish Thematic Network on Supervision and Diagnosis of Complex systems will organize in July 2026 the 11th Intl. Summer School on Fault Diagnosis of Complex systems.
This Summer School is an intensive seminar that will take place along 5 days (30 hours) in Terrasa, Spain. Its main goal is introducing students to different diagnosis approaches coming from different research communities: Control Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, … This year we will introduce also Machine Learning methods for prognostics and condition-based maintenance.
The School is open to PhD/master students and also to industrial practitioners interested in these approaches to diagnosis. Successful applications to fields like electronic circuits, chemical processes, continuous industrial processes, automotive, satellites, software, etc. have been made.
Final programme:
T1. INTRODUCTION. FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS
T1.1 Definitions: fault, failure, detection, diagnosis, reliability…
T1.2 Foundations for fault detection and diagnosis in FDI and DX: detectability, observability, diagnosability…
T2. THE FDI APPROACH
T2.1. Structural analysis and analytical redundancy.
T2.2. Model-based detection methods: parameter estimation, parity equations, state observers for linear and non-linear models.
T2.3. Fault detection: residual evaluation by consistency tests, and envelope generators.
T2.4. Fault isolation: structured and directional residuals.
T3. THE DX APPROACH
T3.1 Model-based diagnosis from AI Community. Consistency-based diagnosis, CBD: Theoretical (Reiter’s ) approach.
T3.2 GDE: the computational approach to CBD.
T3.3 Computational alternatives to GDE. Diagnosing multiple faults.
T4. BRIDGE: INTEGRATION OF FDI AND DX APPROACHES
T4.1 Theoretical links and comparison.
T4.2 Practical comparison and potential synergies.
T5. DIAGNOSING BUSINESS PROCESSES
T5.1 Introduction to Business Processes
T5.2 Diagnosis in the Business Process lifecycle
T5.3 Self-adaptative Business Processes
T5.4 Challenges and applications
T6. SOFTWARE DIAGNOSIS
T6.1 Introduction
T6.2 Software Testing
T6.3 Software Debugging
T6.4 Software Configuration Diagnosis
T7. STATISTICAL APPROACHES TO FAULT DIAGNOSIS
T7.1. Fault diagnosis using statistical methods.
T8. MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR PROGNOSTICS
T8.1 ML for prognostics and Condition Based Monitoring
T8.2. DL for prognostics
The Summer School oficial language will be English.
Location: The 11th edition of this well established event will take place in the Terrasa Campus of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya· Barcelona Tech (UPC), Barcelona, Spain.
The teaching will take place at the Automatic Control Building, in the UPC Terrassa Campus.
UPC Terrassa Campus is located 30 km of Barcelona. It can be easily accessed by car, but preferred transportation is by metro (35 min. from Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona) or train.
Suggested accommodation: Hipatia UPC Residence
Additional information about the school is available at https://diagnosis.cs2ac.upc.edu/
Special Guests: Louise Trave-Massuyes (LAAS-CNRS, France), Mayank-Shekhar Jha (École Polytechnique de l’Université de Lorraine (Polytech Nancy), France)
Academic Staff:
– V. Puig (Barcelona Tech-UPC)
– J. Armengol and J. Melendez (University of Girona)
– M. Gómez and R. Ceballos (University of Seville)
– C. Alonso-Gonzalez, Aníbal Bregon, M.J. de la Fuente, and Belarmino Pulido (University of Valladolid)
Registration: Early bird registration 600 euro (before April 30th, 2026), late registration 850 euro (until June 30th, 2026).
