5. Discussion

Diagnosis, recovery ordering, and a learned detector answer different questions

What the case studies show

  • Stage isolation works: swapping only evaluation moves correct decisions from 9 to 25 of 31
  • Dynamics beat symptoms: trajectory similarity separates faults that share the same limit crossings
  • Closing the loop works: procedure ETRs + alarm verification recover 28 of 31 under P/T or highest P
  • Learned detection beats thresholds and holds under noise: 31/31 detect on every mode×intensity cell; F1 stays ≥ 0.92 (worst ar1/med), median latency ≤ 4 s

Limitations

  • Recovery study uses knowledge-graph diagnosis only
  • LSTM train / holdout share one synthetic generator
  • Study C open-loop detection not yet gating full diagnosis
  • Gate thresholds and verify window not tuned
  • Robotics still a surrogate; no operator-in-the-loop yet