• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.727-734
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• 2020

Fault tolerant corrective control for asynchronous sequential machines (ASMs) with transient faults is discussed in this paper. The considered ASM is vulnerable to a kind of faults whose manifestation may arise during transient transitions of the ASM, leading to transient faults occurring in non-fundamental mode. To overcome adverse effects caused by these faults, we present a novel corrective control scheme that can detect and tolerate transient faults in non-fundamental mode. The existence condition and design algorithm for an appropriate fault tolerant controller is addressed in the framework of corrective control theory. The applicability of the proposed control methodology is demonstrated in the FPGA experiment.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.62 no.6
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• pp.731-736
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• 2013

Most of faults occurring in transmission lines are transient faults. For such faults, automatic reclosing is economic and effective method to improve the reliability and transient stability of power system. Many countries apply various reclosing schemes considering issues of their own systems such as transient stability, rate of success. Currently, different reclosing schemes are applied in Korean transmission systems according to a rated voltage. In this paper, we conduct an evaluation of reclosing schemes in Korean transmission systems considering transient stability. Computer simulations are performed by using ElectroMagnetic Transient Program (EMTP) and transmission system is modeled based on actual data of Korea.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.8-15
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• 2006

Since the power swing depends on the operating time of the relay, the swing's magnitude can be reduced by an autoreclosure relaying system with an optimal reclosing algorithm. This paper proposes a method for stability improvement using optimal reclosure relaying. An optimal reclosure algorithm is applied to identify both temporary and permanent faults, and to predict system stability by applying WAM and high speed communication technology. It provides optimal control by predicting and determining the degree of stability, considering the real time transient stability using EEEAC. For temporary faults, the algorithm determines the system's stability and either recloses optimally for stable systems, or inserts series capacitance before optimal reclosure for unstable systems. It also applies an optimal reclosure algorithm to minimize shock and damage to the power system when reclosure fails due to permanent faults.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.1147-1152
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• 2007

This paper deals with a scheme for fault-tolerance improvement of real-time embedded systems, which engages an equidistant checkpointing technique to tolerate transient errors. Transient errors are caused by transient faults which are the most significant type of fault in reliable computer systems. Transient faults are assumed to occur according to a Poisson process and to be detected in a non-concurrent manner (e.g., checked periodically). The probability of the successful real-time task completion in the presence of transient errors is derived with the consideration of the possible effects of the transient errors. Based on this, a condition under which inserting checkpoints improves the fault-tolerance of the system is introduced and an optimal equidistant checkpointing strategy that achieves the highest fault tolerance is presented.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.376-380
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• 2008

This paper deals with a performance analysis of real-time control systems, which engages DMR(dual modular redundancy) to detect transient errors and checkpointing technique to tolerate transient errors. Transient errors are caused by transient faults and the most significant type of errors in reliable computer systems. Transient faults are assumed to occur according to a Poisson process and to be detected by a dual modular redundant structure. In addition, an equidistant checkpointing strategy is considered. The probability of the successful task completion in a real-time control system where periodic checkpointing operations are performed during the execution of a real-time control task is derived. Numerical examples show how checkpoiniting scheme influences the probability of task completion. In addition, the result of the analysis is compared with the simulation result.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.882-892
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a mechanism for both scheduling the hybrid-task set which consists of periodic and aperiodic tasks and recovering tasks with transient faults on the level of the operating system. Existing embedded operating systems would not provide the scheduling of both periodic and aperiodic tasks. Also because of not supporting the recovery of task failures, they can not prevent system failure from transient task faults. Proposed method, on the level of operating system, is able to not only meet the deadlines of all periodic tasks but also complete the execution of aperiodic tasks. In addition, it is able to prevent the system failure from transient task faults by recovering the task faults.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.399-408
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• 2022

This paper proposes a corrective control system to achieve fault-tolerant control for input/output asynchronous sequential circuits vulnerable to transient faults violating fundamental mode operations. To overcome non-fundamental mode faults occurring in transient transitions of asynchronous sequential circuits, it is necessary to determine the end of unauthorized state transitions caused by the faults and to stably take the circuit from the faulty state to a desired state that is output equivalent with the normal next stable state. We address the existence condition for a proper output-feedback corrective controller that achieves fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control for these non-fundamental mode faults. The corrective controller and asynchronous sequential circuit are implemented on field-programming gate array to demonstrate the synthesis procedure and applicability of the proposed control scheme.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.748-754
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose the Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) control system equipped with a checkpoint strategy. In this system, faults in a single processor are masked and faults in two or more processors are detected at each checkpoint time. When faults are detected, the rollback recovery is activated to recover from faults. The conventional TMR control system cannot overcome faults in two or more processors. The proposed system can effectively cope with correlated and independent faults in two or more processors. We develop a reliability model for this TMR control system under correlated and independent transient faults, and derive the reliability equation. Then we investigate the number of checkpoints that maximizes the reliability.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.07b
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• pp.509-512
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• 1995

The relaying algorithm to calculate the fault distance from only transient signal at faults in T/L is presented. In this paper. At faults the oscillation frequency components exist in both voltage and current and these components minimize the input impedance shown in fault point. The equivalent source impedance shown in relaying point is needed to calculate the fault distance using these components. To source impedance, the reflection coefficient between forward wave and backward and the Prony's analysis is also employed to extract the oscillation frequency component from transient signals. The case study show that the new distance relaying algorithm satisfies the high operation speed and high accuracy even if the algorithm uses only transient signals.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.62 no.1
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• pp.120-126
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• 2013

This paper proposes a novel scheme of fault detection and self-recovery for space-borne dual ring counters subject to transient faults. The considered ring counter is equipped with hardware redundancy, but it has a limited output domain where direct access to the current state is unavailable. We employ the theory of corrective control to detect any transient fault occurring to the counter bits and to realize immediate self-recovery of the ring counter back to the normal state. The structure of the fault-tolerant controller is designed to be minimal regardless of the counter size. To validate the applicability, we implement the proposed system on a commercial FGPA board.