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Analytical fault tolerant navigation system for an aerospace launch vehicle using sliding mode observer

  • Hasani, Mahdi;Roshanian, Jafar;Khoshnooda, A. Majid
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.53-64
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    • 2017
  • Aerospace Launch Vehicles (ALV) are generally designed with high reliability to operate in complete security through fault avoidance practices. However, in spite of such precaution, fault occurring is inevitable. Hence, there is a requirement for on-board fault recovery without significant degradation in the ALV performance. The present study develops an advanced fault recovery strategy to improve the reliability of an Aerospace Launch Vehicle (ALV) navigation system. The proposed strategy contains fault detection features and can reconfigure the system against common faults in the ALV navigation system. For this purpose, fault recovery system is constructed to detect and reconfigure normal navigation faults based on the sliding mode observer (SMO) theory. In the face of pitch channel sensor failure, the original gyro faults are reconstructed using SMO theory and by correcting the faulty measurement, the pitch-rate gyroscope output is constructed to provide fault tolerant navigation solution. The novel aspect of the paper is employing SMO as an online tuning of analytical fault recovery solution against unforeseen variations due to its hardware/software property. In this regard, a nonlinear model of the ALV is simulated using specific navigation failures and the results verified the feasibility of the proposed system. Simulation results and sensitivity analysis show that the proposed techniques can produce more effective estimation results than those of the previous techniques, against sensor failures.

An Experimental Fault Analysis and Speed Control of an Induction Motor using Motor Solver

  • Sengamalai, Usha;Chinnamuthu, Subramani
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.761-768
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    • 2017
  • This paper deals with the performance analysis of three phase induction motor considering its stator side faults and operating thermal limits. The speed control of induction motor using three phase boost converter operated by a MOSFET switch and a PI controller is demonstrated and presented in this article. IGBTs switches are used for inverter drive mechanism. The experimental result of speed control of induction motor using voltage control technique clearly shows better accuracy than conventional methods of speed control. A three phase 1HP 415V 0.78 kW 4 Pole induction motor is designed using motor solver software. Based on the parameters used in the software thermal analysis of induction motor is done and torque variation with conductor area, efficiency, output curve, losses in different parts of motor has been obtained. Also different types of faults namely under voltage, over voltage, stator imbalanced voltage, turn to turn, locked rotor bar, wrong alignment of rotor bar with respect to stator are studied and fault analysis is performed. Hence comparison is made based upon the results obtained before and after faults.

Least Square Method: A Novel Approach to Determine Symmetrical Components of Power System

  • Rehman, Bilawal;Liu, Chongru;Wang, Lili
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.39-44
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    • 2017
  • This paper proposes a novel approach to determine symmetrical components of power system by applying method of least squares in time domain. For the modern power system stability, clearance of faults on high voltage transmission lines in zero response time is crucial and important. Symmetrical components have a great attention since last century. They have been found an effective tool for the analysis of symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults in power system. Moreover, magnitude of symmetrical components are also used as a caution about faults in system. With rapid changes in technology, Microprocessor assumed to be fastest machine of the modern era. Hence microprocessor based techniques were developed and implemented for last few decades. The proposed technique apply least square method in the computation of symmetrical components which is suitable as an application in microprocessor based monitoring and controlling power system in order to avoid cascading failures. Simulation of proposed model is carried out in MATLAB/SIMULINK and all results exploit the validity of model.

Safely Evaluation on Common Grounding System for Electric Railway (전기철도의 공용접지 시스템에 대한 안정성 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Jin-Ho;Hwang, Yu-Mo
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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    • v.51 no.6
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    • pp.298-306
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    • 2002
  • We performed an safety evaluation on constructing of a common grounding system for electrical railway in view of its efficacy and technical fit. In order to compare the conventional grounding method, which has been individually conducted, with the common grounding with all ground wires connected in common to the counterpoise buried below the surface of the earth in parallel with rail, we set up scenarios with several cases of fault and load conditions in Chungbuk railway sections with the common grounding system. Based on models for railway conductors including the grounded system, line Parameters of railway power system are computed. The circuit model for power system with up and down lines, auto-transformers and railway substations is used to compute impedances of counterpoise and substation ground net. For each scenario with faults and operation conditions of railway, the induced potentials on signal and communication lines are also computed. It is shown that the common grounding for Chungbuk railway is superior experimentally to the conventional method in three respects: (1) the lower rail potentials during operation of railway in line, (2) the lower rail potentials for short-circuit faults between catenary and rail, and (3) the lower stress voltages on signal and communication lines for short-circuit or ground faults. The analysis results confirm that the grounding system for electric railway is required to be built by the common grounding and be evaluated on its safety in design.

Path Delay Testing for Micropipeline Circuits (마이크로파이프라인 회로를 위한 지연 고장 테스트)

  • Kang, Yong-Seok;Huh, Kyung-Hoi;Kang, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.38 no.8
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    • pp.72-84
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    • 2001
  • The timings of all computational elements in the micropipeline circuits are important. The previous researches on path delay testing using scan methods make little account of the characteristic of the path delay tests that the second test pattern must be more controllable. In this paper, a new scan latch is proposed which is suitable to path delay testing of the micropipelines and has small area overhead. Results show that path delay faults in the micropipeline circuits using the new scan are testable robustly and the fault coverage is higher than the previous researches. In addition, the new scan latch for path delay faults testing in the micropipeline circuits can be easily expanded to the applications such as BIST for stuck-at faults.

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Neural Networks-based Statistical Approach for Fault Diagnosis in Nonlinear Systems (비선형시스템의 고장진단을 위한 신경회로망 기반 통계적접근법)

  • Lee, In-Soo;Cho, Won-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.503-510
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents a fault diagnosis method using neural network-based multi-fault models and statistical method to detect and isolate faults in nonlinear systems. In the proposed method, faults are detected when the errors between the system output and the neural network nominal system output cross a predetermined threshold. Once a fault in the system is detected, the fault classifier statistically isolates the fault by using the error between each neural network-based fault model output and the system output. From the computer simulation results, it is verified that the proposed fault diagonal method can be performed successfully to detect and isolate faults in a nonlinear system.

Interpretation of geologic structure in Tertiary Pohang basin, Korea (포항분지내 지각변형 해석)

  • Lee, Byung-Joo;Song, Kyo-Young
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.69-77
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    • 1995
  • Tertiary Pohang basin distributed in south western part of the Korean peninsula, is composed of Chunbuk formation as the basal conglomerate, Hakjon formation, Duho formation and intrusive basalt having 15 Ma by absolute age data. The basement of the basin is represented to Cretaceous sedimentary rocks, Hakjon welded tuff and Chilpo welded tuff and rhyolite. The fault systems in the basement of Tertiary Pohang basin are consist of $N20^{\circ}E$ fault, $N60^{\circ}W$ and E-W trend. NNE fault is not only strike-slip but also normal dip-slip. WNW fault has sinistral strike-slip sense and the geometry of E-W fault is strike-slip and normal faults. In the basin, the fault system is represented to $N20^{\circ}E$ strike-slip, E-W normal and NNE thrust faults. By these fault relationship and geometry, it is interpreted that NNE sinistral strike-slip fault and N-S normal faults have acted at the Cretaceous basement. After Miocene NNE dextral strike-slip fault has acted and created E-W normal fault. Progressively Tertiary basin was influenced by the transpression to make thrust and fold, namely inversion tectonics.

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Finite element analysis of reactor internals with structural faults (기계적 결함이 있는 원자로 내부구조물의 유한요소해석)

  • Jung, Seung-Ho;Park, Jin-Seok;Kim, Tae-Ryong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.21 no.8
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    • pp.1270-1275
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    • 1997
  • This paper concerns with the finite element analysis of reactor internals with structural faults. For investigating the influence of hold-down spring faults on dynamic characteristics of CSB (core support barrel), reactor internals of Ulchin-1 nuclear power plant are modeled using finite element method and simulated with artificial defects on the hold-down springs. To prove the validity of the finite element models, the calculated natural frequencies of CSB in normal state are compared with those from the measurement results, which shows good agreement. According to results of finite element analysis, CSB beam mode natural frequency decreases by 4.5% in the case of 10% partial relaxation of hold-down springs, and decreases by 18.4% in the case of 20%. The range of shell mode natural frequency change is within 5.3%.

A Study on the Fault Detection of Roller Bearings in the Auto-Transmission (자동변속기에서의 롤러 베어링 결함 검출에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Ki-Ho;Jung, Sang-Jin;Wee, Hyuk;Lee, Gook-Sun;Cho, Seong-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.84-88
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    • 2008
  • The roller bearings play an important role not only sustain radial or axial load of system, but carry out a rotatory movement as a various operating conditions. They happen that incipient faults which were caused by excessive load, manufacturing or assembling process's errors and many other reasons are created. The bearing faults make noise and vibration by a continuous collision of rotatory components, which can lower the quality and stability of auto-transmission. Therefore, it is important to detect the early fault as soon as possible. This paper presents a detecting method for the improvement in quality by developing the program which can be used to analyze and predict the vibrational characteristics caused by roller bearing faults. We completed development of the inspection system of vibration by appling the most efficient detecting methods and verified the system's reliability through experiments.

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A Robust Fault Isolation Filter Design Based on Left Eigenstructure Assignment and its Application to Flight System (좌 고유구조지정법 기반 결실 고장 분리 필터 설계 및 비행체 시스템에의 응용)

  • Lee, Dae-Yung;Park, Jae-Weon
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.384-392
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, we propose a novel robust fault isolation filter design method using the left eigenstructure assignment scheme proposed by the authors. The proposed method guarantees that the ${\gamma}$ simultaneous faults can be isolated when the number of available outpur measurements is ${\gamma}$. Moreover, if there exist redundant output measurements, the eigenvaluses of te filter system can be assigned to the desired position or the filter can be designed robustly to, the system parameter variation. Liu & Si developed a filter design method which has the same purpose, fault isolation. However their method cannot use the redundant freedom of the output matrix C. The proposed filter can use the redundant freedom of the matrix C effectively. Beside this in this paper, an eigenstructure assignment methodology that satisfies the required fault isolation conditions is also proposed. The proposed fault isolation filter was applied for isolating the simultaneous faults to a VTOL aircraft in order to verify the fault isolation performance.

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