• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.07a
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• pp.283-284
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• 2013

This paper proposes a fault-tolerant strategy for indirect matrix converter (IMC) based on the concept of four-leg matrix converter in case of an open-circuit fault in the inverter stage. The proposed strategy can maintain the same output performance as the healthy condition during the faulty condition. Some simulated results are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.79-80
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• 2009

최근 UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)의 OFP(Operation Flight Program)에 대한 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. UAV의 OFP는 경성 소프트웨어 일종으로 Time deadline과 수많은 요인으로 인한 Fault에 대하여 소프트웨어의 높은 신뢰성이 요구가 된다. 본 논문에서는 UAV의 OFP에 대하여 STR(Primary-Shadow TMO replication)기반의 fault tolerant Architecture에 대하여 제안을 한다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.968-979
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• 2019

Recently, there has been increased interest in the study of multiphase machines due to their higher fault-tolerant capability when compared to their conventional three-phase counterparts. For six-phase machines, stator windings configured with a single isolated neutral (1N) provide significantly more post-fault torque/power than two isolated neutrals (2N). Hence, this configuration is preferred in applications where post-fault performance is critical. It is well known that min-max injection has been commonly used for three-phase and multiphase machines in healthy condition to maximize the modulation limit. However, there is a lack of discussion on min-max injection for post-fault condition. Furthermore, the effects in terms of the common-mode voltage (CMV) in modulating signals has not been discussed. This paper investigates the effect of min-max injection in post fault-tolerant control on the voltage and speed limit of a symmetrical six-phase induction machine with single isolated neutral. It is shown that the min-max injection can minimize the amplitude of reference voltage, which maximizes the modulation index and post-fault speed of the machine. This in turn results in a higher post-fault power.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.13-20
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• 2008

Reliability is absolutely necessary in most recent mission critical systems which usually utilize the Ethernet based computer networks. A typical way to increase system reliability is to equip the fault tolerant Ethernet. In this paper we try to formulate the fault tolerant dual Ethernet concept and presents a comparison of its implementation approaches. Two types of dual Ethernet configuration are analyzed; the divided and the connected. Then the characteristics of three current implementation approaches which are the hardware based, the software based, and the recently proposed hybrid approach are compared. The results show that the hardware based or the hybrid approaches can be a better solution for the real time mission critical systems. Also for the systems which require the use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware for fault tolerant Ethernet the possible choice is the software based or the hybrid approach.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.62 no.7
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• pp.994-1002
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• 2013

This study suggests a generalized availability and safety evaluation model to evaluate the influences to the system's fault tolerant capabilities depending on automatic fault detection function such as the automatic periodic testings. The conventional evaluation model of automatic fault detection function deals only with the self diagnostics, and supposes that the fault detection coverage of self diagnostics is always constant. But all of the fault detection methods could be degraded. For example, the periodic surveillance test has the potential human errors or test equipment errors, the self diagnostics has the potential degradation of built-in logics, and the automatic periodic testing has the potential degradation of automatic test facilities. The suggested evaluation models have incorporated the loss or erroneous behaviors of the automatic fault detection methods. The availability and the safety of each module of the safety grade platform have been evaluated as they were applied the automatic periodic test methodology and the fault tolerant evaluation models. The availability and safety of the safety grade platform were improved when applied the automatic periodic testing. Especially the fault tolerant capability of the processor module with a weak self-diagnostics and the process parameter input modules were dramatically improved compared to the conventional cases. In addition, as a result of the safety evaluation of the digital reactor protection system, the system safety of the digital parts was improved about 4 times compared to the conventional cases.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.548-555
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• 2021

This paper outlines the basic concepts, approaches and research trends of fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control applied to industrial processes, facilities, and motor drives. The main role of fault diagnosis for industrial processes is to create effective indicators to determine the defect status of the process and then take appropriate measures against failures or hazadous accidents. The technologies of fault detection and diagnosis have been developed to determine whether a process has a trend or pattern, or whether a particular process variable is functioning normally. Firstly, data-driven based and model-based techniques were described. Secondly, fault detection and diagnosis techniques for industrial processes are described. Thirdly, passive and active fault tolerant control techniques are considered. Finally, major faults occurring in AC motor drives were listed, described their characteristics and fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control techniques are outlined for this purpose.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.1634-1640
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• 2010

In this paper, I studied the "Establishment of Fault Tolerant System" as well as the sensor and cylinder that are general components being used in automation equipments. I design a system that when the sensor breaks down on free flow conveyor, it will be converted to virtual sensor system mode by simulation, also I design IPC(Internal Pressure Cylinder), a basis of various applicable fault tolerant system by analyzing the changing of analog data according to the load of operation. With IPC and the increasing ability of developer, the Fault Tolerant System will be widely applied in the increasment of service time of cylinder, grease pouring time expection, fault recognition of cylinder and etc.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.1256-1267
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• 2017

A fault tolerant structure and its corresponding control strategy for electromagnetic stirring power supplies are proposed in this paper. The topology structure of the electromagnetic stirring power supply contains two-stages. The fore-stage is the PWM rectifier. The back-stage is the fault tolerant inverter, which is a two-phase three-bridge orthogonal inverter circuit while operating normally. When the power switch devices in the inverter are faulty, the structure of the inverter is reconfigured. The two-phase half bridge inverter circuit is constructed with the remaining power switch devices and DC-link capacitors to keep the system operating after cutting the faulty power switch devices from the system. The corresponding control strategy is proposed to let the system work under both normal and fault conditions. The reliability of the system is improved and the requirement of the electromagnetic stirring process is met. Finally, simulation and experimental results verify the feasibility of the proposed fault tolerant structure and corresponding control strategy.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.9
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• pp.2533-2539
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• 1999

Two scheme are widely used for fault-tolerant systems : one is the duplex system that has a physical redundancy, and the other one is the checkpointing scheme that rolls back to the last checkpoint at a failure. The average execution time and availability are important factors for measuring the performance of the fault-tolerant systems. However, in fault-tolerant real-time systems with a time constraint, meeting the time constrain instead of reducing the average execution time is the most important factor in the performance evaluation. We analyze and compare the performance of two fault-tolerant scheme (the duplex system and the checkpointing scheme) for real-time applications.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.25-34
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• 2006

As most application programs are more sophisticated and are adopted the distributed object technology, the object based distributed design became widespread since it supports portability and reusability. The approaches for fault-tolerant distributed computing are categorized into the active replica mechanism for mission-critical application programs and the passive replica mechanism for non mission-critical ones, when fault-tolerant facilities are added on. Our paper introduces the pros and drawbacks of several approaches for the add-on low-overhead fault-tolerant services by the surveys and shows the results of experiments for bench-mark models in order to demonstrate their performance.