“…A well-trained diagnosis approach was based not only on an appropriate classification algorithm, but also on the large amount of training data that should cover every fault class as well as effective feature extracting process that is used to select the fault features. In the past decades, some effective classifiers based on genetic algorithms [8,9], artificial neural network [3,[10][11][12][13][14][15], wavelet theory [9,11,13], fuzzy theory [3,16], artificial immune system [17][18][19], support vector machine [9], particle filtering [20], and clonal selection algorithm [21] were widely reported, but there were just few researches about how to extract the fault feature from responses of circuits. In fact, it is a critical procedure and primary task for general-purpose PR-based diagnosis algorithms to find some effective methods and circuit-dependent fault feature extraction and construction approaches to reduce the dimension of input data and minimize its training and processing time.…”