Patent ID: 8768668

Claim:
A method for optimizing parameters of a plurality of selected diagnostic algorithms in a tunable diagnostic algorithm library, the method comprising the steps of: a) supplying a plurality of sensed data sets to each of the selected algorithms implemented in a processor, each of the sensed data sets having an actual diagnostic label associated therewith; b) supplying, to the processor, a value for each parameter of each of the selected algorithms that is to be optimized; and in the processor: c) generating a computed diagnostic label for each of the sensed data sets using each of the selected algorithms, a fault model, and the value for each parameter; d) supplying each of the computed diagnostic labels and each of the actual diagnostic labels to a generic objective function, to thereby calculate an objective function value; and e) varying the value of one or more of the parameters using an optimization routine that repeats steps c)-e) until the objective function value is minimized.