Welcome message
On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the XI International Summer School on Fault Diagnosis of Complex Systems, we welcome the participants of the school to be held in Terrassa on July 13-17, 2026. The school is organized by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and its Research Center for Supervision, Safety and Automatic Control (CS2AC). It is promoted by the Spanish Research Network on Fault Diagnosis and supported by the University of Valladolid (UVA), the University of Girona (UdG) and the University of Seville (US).
Following the great success of and acceptance by the international community of diagnostics of the previous editions, the International Summer School on Fault Diagnosis of Complex Systems is organized every two years in a different Spanish University. Previous editions demonstrated the demand for establishing a continuous scientific forum in the general field of system monitoring and fault diagnosis. The safe and reliable operation of technical systems is of great significance for the protection of human life and health as well as the environment, and of a vested economic value for supporting decision making or emergency actions and repairs. Moreover, in highly automated industrial systems where maintenance or repair cannot be carried out immediately, it is crucial to employ fault-tolerant control systems capable of ensuring acceptable performance even in the presence of faults. The program of this edition includes 2 invited professors plus the regular staff professors. We hope that those talks will give the participants the opportunity to share in the knowledge and experience of world-renowned scientists and experts in fault diagnosis.
We also hope that you will find your participation in this school very stimulating and rewarding. Moreover, we believe that a few days’ stay in Terrassa, Barcelona and other parts of Catalonia will give you an opportunity to enjoy and to learn more about the city and the region. We would like to thank all members of the Organization for their excellent work in ensuring a high quality of the school program. Special thanks go to members of the Local Organizing Committee for their hard work that made it possible to organize this international scientific event.
We wish all participants to enjoy the XI International Summer School on Fault Diagnosis of Complex Systems and a pleasant stay in Terrassa.
Anibal Bregon and Belarmino Pulido (University of Valladolid, Spain), Vicenç Puig (Politechnic University of Catalonia, Spain).
11th INTL. Summer School on Fault Diagnosis of Complex Systems
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.
Currently, automated diagnosis of devices is an interesting research and development field.
It can be approached with different techniques (knowledge-based systems, case-based reasoning,
machine-learning or model-based reasoning) coming from different fields: Control Engineering,
Artificial Intelligence or Statistics. It is not easy to include several of these techniques
in a single course.
This School is an intensive seminar that will take place along 5 days (30 hours) in Terrassa,
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.
Tentative 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.
On-line Registration
Registration Fees:
Early Registration: 600 euros (before April 30th, 2026)
Later Registration: 850 euros (from May, until June 30th, 2026)
Organization
XI International Summer School of Fault Diagnosis is promoted by the Spanish Fault Diagnosis Network and this year’s event is organized by the Research Center for Supervision, Safety and Automatic Control of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Terrassa (Barcelona).
The school is also supported by the following Spanish Universities:
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Universidad de Valladolid
Universitat de Girona
Universidad de Sevilla
Academic Staff
Invited Professors
Louise Trave-Massuyes
LAAS-CNRS, France
Mayank-Shekhar Jha
École Polytechnique de l’Université de Lorraine, FRANCE
Regular Professors
C. Alonso-González
U. Valladolid
J. Armengol
U. Girona
A. Bregon
U. Valladolid
M.J. de la Fuente
U. Valladolid
M. Teresa Gomez
U. Sevilla
J. Melendez
U. Girona
V. Puig
UPC
B. Pulido
U. Valladolid
Location
The 11th edition of this established event will take place between the 13th and 17th of July 2026
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
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
Carrer Miquel Vives, 20
(corner with Rambla Sant Nebridi, in front School site)
08222 Terrassa (Barcelona)
Spain
There will be some pre-booked rooms at the UPC residence Hipatia next to the School site.
Deadline for booking a room at UPC Residence: 15/05/2026
In order to reserve a room in the UPC residence Hipatia you have to proceed with the on-line reservation.
The reservation period will be open from 27/03/2026 until 15/05/2026.
Web info Hipatia
Our School
location
Engineering School – TR5 Building
Carrer Colom, 11
08222 Terrassa (Barcelona)
Spain
How to get to the School Site
Guests can enjoy excellent connections with every means of public transport:
Metro:Regional metro FGC run very often (depending on the time of day), departing from Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona https://www.fgc.cat/en/ Vallparadis Universitat metro station is at two minutes walking distance of the school site.
Train:Regional trains RENFE run very often (depending on the time of day), departing from Plaça de Catalunya and Barcelona Main Station (Sants) in Barcelona. https://rodalies.gencat.cat/en/ . The Terrassa Nord station is at 10 minute walking distance of the school site.
Taxi: €60 approx. from/to the Airport.