Artificial Neural Networks for Identification of Beam Pump Dynamometer Load Cards

Abstract

1 ABSTRACT The oiL industry, spurred by the need for cost efficiency and the loss of experts in technical areas, has begun to apply Artificial Intelligence or Expert systems. This paper details the use of a pattern recognition scheme using Fourier Descriptors and a Neural Network model to develop an Artificial Intelligence system to analyze and classify beam pumping unit dynamometer diagrams.