APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AN ACTUATOR SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AN ACTUATOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AN ACTUATOR SYSTEM

The invention provides an apparatus (100) for monitoring an actuator system (1) with a plurality of actuators (2) and a plurality of data output signals (10). An anomaly detector (110) detects anomalies. A suppressing engine (120) determines time periods in which a control intervention has been performed. In a resulting monitoring signal (173) only anomalies are indicated which do not overlap with time periods in which the control intervention has been performed.Accordingly, much less irrelevant alerts and false positives are output to a human supervisor monitoring the actuator system. The invention is particularly useful when applied for monitoring a system of actuators that may affect one another over time, because in such systems a control intervention at one actuator might otherwise result in a lot of false positives for other actuators of the same system. The invention is especially useful when applied to a system of submersible pumps, or a system of conveyor belts.