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Diagnosis of the occurred accident is an essential sequence for optimum mitigations; however, it is also a critical source of error because the results of accident identification determine the task flow connected to all subsequent tasks. To support accident identification in nuclear power plants, recurrent neural network (RNN)-based approaches have recently shown outstanding performances. Despite the achievements though, the robustness of RNN models is not promising because wrong inputs have been shown to degrade the performance of RNNs to a greater extent than other methods in some applications. In this research, an accident diagnosis system that is tolerant to sensor faults is developed based on an existing RNN model and tested with anticipated sensor errors. To find the optimum strategy to mitigate sensor error, Missforest, selected from among various imputation methods, and gated recurrent unit with decay (GRUD), developed for multivariate time series imputation based on the RNN model, are compared to examine the extent that they recover the diagnosis accuracies within a given threshold.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20205839","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,15]],"date-time":"2020-10-15T09:02:03Z","timestamp":1602752523000},"page":"5839","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["A Sensor Fault-Tolerant Accident Diagnosis System"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Jeonghun","family":"Choi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun, Ulsan 44919, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2582-8213","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Seung Jun","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun, Ulsan 44919, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Toth, E. 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