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The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster has reminded us, once again, the potential for systemic failures in complex engineered systems. But such systemic failures are not limited to the chemical and petrochemical industries alone. The 2003 Northeast electrical power blackout was a systemic failure. Financial disasters such as Enron, WorldCom, subprime derivatives market, and so on, also belong...
The problem of fault diagnosis in thrusters of autonomous underwater vehicle is studied. Solution of the problem involves residual generation as a result of mismatch between vehicle behaviour and its reference model behaviour followed by decision making via evaluation of the residual. Sensitivity theory based methods are developed for the design of both residual generator and decision making procedure...
This paper is aimed at robust control of a Permanent magnet DC motor based actuator used in the control of the inlet swirl valve of a diesel engine. The actuator has uncertainty issues related to parameter identification and variation, and load disturbance. These issues lead to faults in controllers, resulting in poor performance and failure. The actuator has been modeled taking parameter uncertainties...
This paper investigates the detection filter design problem for the detection and isolation of faults in linear parameter varying (LPV) systems by means of dynamic inversion where the system matrix depends affinely from the parameters. A method for the construction of the inverse, relying on the concept of parameter varying invariant subspaces and related concepts of classical geometrical system theory...
A Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) method for a generic 3D aircraft is presented. The behavior of the aircraft is described by a nonlinear control-affine model, which is closed-loop controlled by a classical guidance, navigation and control (GNC) algorithm. The proposed FDI procedure exploits the redundancy induced by this control module, along with the accelerations measured by the Inertial Measurement...
In this paper the design of sliding mode observers for gyro and thruster fault detection and isolation in the Mars Express satellite is presented. The results are part of a project with the goal of examining the potential applicability of the sliding mode observer technique to on-board satellite deployment. A Monte Carlo campaign has been performed to assess the performance and robustness of the sliding...
This paper presents preliminary results regarding the development of a supervision scheme for the attitude control system of a nonlinear satellite model. The main issue concerns the handling of faults affecting the reaction wheels, i.e. how to detect and isolate faults, and how to prevent propagation into failures with potential mission loss as a consequence. Thus, this work investigates the design...
Significant research has been carried out over the past three decades in the area of fault tolerant control. Most methods available in the chemical engineering literature are capable of detecting, identifying, estimating and accommodating faults for nonlinear processes with continuous states without state dependent and controlled switching. This work is aimed at developing a method for diagnosing...
Leaks are present to some extent in all water-distribution systems. This paper proposes a leakage localization method based on pressure measurements and the application of principal component analysis to the fault diagnosis in water distribution systems. First, some theoretical basics are introduced, from model building and modeling the fault effects to monitoring. Then a simple hydraulic case study...
This work focuses on fault detection applied to static converters. A new method for estimating parameters of dynamic model of the buck converter is proposed, based on recent algebraic parameters estimators. The diagnosis scheme developed in this paper computes online the filter capacitor aging by determining the equivalent series resistance (ESR). The capacitance and inductance value are also estimated...
In this paper, an approach to design an Admissible Model Matching (AMM) Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) based on Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) techniques is proposed. The main contribution of the proposed approach consists in the on-line reconfiguration of the controller based on the use of LPV gain-scheduling techniques that allow to take into account changes in the system parameters due to changes...
This paper proposes a fault-tolerant control strategy for a nonlinear electro-hydraulic system. The fault-tolerant control scheme consists a fault diagnosis system and a reconfigurable controller. The fault diagnosis system is designed based on differential-geometric approach and is robust to system disturbance. Adaptive backstepping method is utilized for realizing the reconfigurable controller....
In this paper, we present an overall study focused on the modeling, identification and control of the Pierburg mechatronic actuator. This actuator is used in the BMW M57 diesel engine to control all the air which are charged and entered in the vehicle engine. The obtained model from the identification procedure is sufficiently closer to the practical actuator behavior and captures most of its characteristics...
This paper deals with the fault detection occurred in the mechanical position sensor of a mechatronic actuator Pierburg which is used in the BMW M57 diesel engine. This actuator is in charge of the control of the input air in the vehicle engine. Concretely, it is located between the throttle valve and the combustion chamber. It is supposed to ensure the control of air flow entering to the cylinder...
This paper presents a design of fuzzy logic control for 2DOF laboratory helicopter model (Humusoft CE 150) which represents a nonlinear and highly cross-coupled system. The controller is composed of two fuzzy logic controllers for azimuth and elevation controls. The main objective of the paper is to obtain robust and stable controls for wide range of azimuth and elevation angles changing during the...
This paper presents an identification method of Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) dynamic systems based on the Group Method of Data Handing. In particular, a new structure of the dynamic neuron is proposed. The synthesis of the neural model is performed with the application of the pole estimation approach. The final part of this work contains an illustrative example regarding the application of the...
Based on the developed nonlinear dynamic equations of a quadrotor (named as Qball-X4) UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), attitude and trajectory tracking control designs based on an inner/outer loop control structure has been proposed in this paper. Feedback linearization is designed to control the attitude stability in inner loop, traditional PID is designed to follow trajectory in accordance with pre-planned...
This paper is concerned with the fusion of information from process data and process connectivity and its subsequent use in fault detection and isolation and hazard assessment. The Signed Directed Graph (SDG), as a graphical model for capturing process topology and connectivity to show the causal relationships between process variables by flow and information paths, has been widely used in root cause...
This paper suggests Petri nets as a mathematical and graphical tool for modeling an industrial oil producing station. It enhances the bottom-up methodology for modeling such stations. It also employs the MATLAB-based PN-tool and the concepts of Petri nets to analysis the developed model that has continuous and discrete activities. The former leads to some difficulties in modeling of hybrid systems...
The problem studied in this paper is the control of discrete event systems subject to strict temporal constraints using (max, +) algebra. Initially we sought necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a causal control law guaranteeing the respect of the temporal constraints. Subsequently, a method for calculating the control law, if any, is proposed. The application which we are interested...
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