Distributed fault diagnosis observer for multi-agent system against actuator and sensor faults

Component failures can cause multi-agent system(MAS)performance degradation and even disasters,which provokes the demand of the fault diagnosis method.A distributed sliding mode observer-based fault diagnosis method for MAS is developed in presence of actuator and sensor faults.Firstly,the actuator and sensor faults are extended to the system state,and the system is transformed into a descriptor system form.Then,a sliding mode-based distributed unknown input observer is proposed to estimate the extended state.Furthermore,adaptive laws are introduced to adjust the observer parameters.Finally,the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated with numerical simulations.

An Insight Survey on Sensor Errors and Fault Detection Techniques in Smart Spaces

The widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed various sectors globally, making themmore intelligent and connected. However, this advancement comes with challenges related to the effectiveness ofIoT devices. These devices, present in offices, homes, industries, and more, need constant monitoring to ensuretheir proper functionality. The success of smart systems relies on their seamless operation and ability to handlefaults. Sensors, crucial components of these systems, gather data and contribute to their functionality. Therefore,sensor faults can compromise the system’s reliability and undermine the trustworthiness of smart environments.To address these concerns, various techniques and algorithms can be employed to enhance the performance ofIoT devices through effective fault detection. This paper conducted a thorough review of the existing literature andconducted a detailed analysis.This analysis effectively links sensor errors with a prominent fault detection techniquecapable of addressing them. This study is innovative because it paves theway for future researchers to explore errorsthat have not yet been tackled by existing fault detection methods. Significant, the paper, also highlights essentialfactors for selecting and adopting fault detection techniques, as well as the characteristics of datasets and theircorresponding recommended techniques. Additionally, the paper presents amethodical overview of fault detectiontechniques employed in smart devices, including themetrics used for evaluation. Furthermore, the paper examinesthe body of academic work related to sensor faults and fault detection techniques within the domain. This reflectsthe growing inclination and scholarly attention of researchers and academicians toward strategies for fault detectionwithin the realm of the Internet of Things.

Actuator and sensor fault isolation in a class of nonlinear dynamical systems

Fault isolation in dynamical systems is a challenging task due to modeling uncertainty and measurement noise,interactive effects of multiple faults and fault propagation.This paper proposes a unified approach for isolation of multiple actuator or sensor faults in a class of nonlinear uncertain dynamical systems.Actuator and sensor fault isolation are accomplished in two independent modules,that monitor the system and are able to isolate the potential faulty actuator(s)or sensor(s).For the sensor fault isolation(SFI)case,a module is designed which monitors the system and utilizes an adaptive isolation threshold on the output residuals computed via a nonlinear estimation scheme that allows the isolation of single/multiple faulty sensor(s).For the actuator fault isolation(AFI)case,a second module is designed,which utilizes a learning-based scheme for adaptive approximation of faulty actuator(s)and,based on a reasoning decision logic and suitably designed AFI thresholds,the faulty actuator(s)set can be determined.The effectiveness of the proposed fault isolation approach developed in this paper is demonstrated through a simulation example.

Sensor Faults Observer Design with H_∞ Performance for Non-linear T-S systems

This paper deals with the problem of the state estimation and the sensor faults detection for nonlinear perturbed systems described by Takagi-Sugeno （T-S） fuzzy models with unmeasurable premise variables. Indeed, a T-S observer is synthesized, in descriptor form, to estimate both the system states and the sensor faults simultaneously. The idea of the proposed approach is to introduce the sensor fault as an auxiliary variable in the state vector. Besides, the T-S model with unmeasurable premise variables is reduced to a perturbed model with measurable variables. Convergence conditions are established with Lyapunov theory and the H∞ performance in order to guarantee the best robustness to disturbances. These conditions are expressed in terms of linear matrix inequalities （LMIs）. The parameters of the observer are computed using the solution of the LMI conditions. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the design procedures. Simulation results show the satisfactory performances.

Fuzzy Filter Design for Affine Systems with Sensor Faults:A Dynamic Event-Triggered Approach

This study addresses the issue of dynamic event-triggered-based filtering for fuzzy affine systems.To alleviate the utilization of constraint bandwidth resources and improve the efficiency of the signals exchange,a dynamic event-triggered protocol is forwarded to regulate the trigger instants with objective system states.Meanwhile,the nonhomogeneous Markov process is proposed to characterize the dynamic behaviors of sensor faults,where the time-varying transition probabilities belong to a convex polytope set.Finally,the validity and applicability of devised filter design methodology for fuzzy affine systems are displayed via two practical models.

Early Sensor Fault Detection Based on PCA and Clustering Analysis

This paper proposes a novel scoring index for the early sensor fault detection in order to make full use of massive archived spacecraft telemetry data.The early detection of sensor faults is made by using the index constructed by the K-means algorithm and PCA model.The sensor fault detection includes the learning phase and monitoring phase.The amplitude of sensor fault has been always increasing when the performance of sensors deteriorates during a period.The proposed index can detect the smaller sensor faults than the squared prediction error( SPE) index which means it can discover the sensor faults earlier than the later.The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed index which can decrease the check-limit as much as 40% than SPE in the same magnitude of bias sensor fault.

Sensor fault diagnosis of nonlinear processes based on structured kernel principal component analysis

A new sensor fault diagnosis method based on structured kernel principal component analysis （KPCA） is proposed for nonlinear processes. By performing KPCA on subsets of variables, a set of structured residuals, i.e., scaled powers of KPCA, can be obtained in the same way as partial PCA. The structured residuals are utilized in composing an isolation scheme for sensor fault diagnosis, according to a properly designed incidence matrix. Sensor fault sensitivity and critical sensitivity are defined, based on which an incidence matrix optimization algorithm is proposed to improve the performance of the structured KPCA. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated on the simulated continuous stirred tank reactor （CSTR） process.

DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR FOR LONG-DISTANCE OIL PIPELINE HEALTH

A fully distributed optical fiber sensor （DOFS） for monitoring long-distance oil pipeline health is proposed based on optical time domain reflectometry （OTDR）. A smart and sensitive optical fiber cable is installed along the pipeline acting as a sensor, The experiments show that the cable swells when exposed to oil and induced additional bending losses inside the fiber, and the optical attenuation of the fiber coated by a thin skin with periodical hardness is sensitive to deformation and vibration caused by oil leakage, tampering, or mechanical impact. The region where the additional attenuation occurred is detected and located by DOFS based on OTDR, the types of pipeline accidents are identified according to the characteristics of transmitted optical power received by an optical power meter, Another prototype of DOFS based on a forward traveling frequency-modulated continuous-wave （FMCW） is also proposed to monitor pipeline. The advantages and disadvantages of DOFSs based on OTDR and FMCW are discussed. The experiments show that DOFSs are capable of detecting and locating distant oil pipeline leakages and damages in real time with an estimated precision of ten meters over tens of kilometers.

Sensor Fault Diagnosis Observer Design for Linear Sampled-Data Descriptor System with Time-Vary Delay

In this paper, a robust sensor fault diagnosis observer with non-singular structure is proposed for a class of linear sampled-data descriptor system with state time-vary delay. Firstly, a sampled-data descriptor model with time-vary delay is proposed and transformed into a discrete-time non-singular one. Then, a robust sensor fault diagnosis observer is proposed based on the state estimation error and the measurement residual, this observer can guarantee the robustness of the residual against the augmented disturbance and the sensor fault, which means the H∞ performance index is satisfied. As the confining matrix of the designed observer parameters does not meet the Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI), a cone complementary linearization (CCL) algorithm is proposed to solve this problem. The decision logic of the residual is obtained by the residual evaluation function. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the method.

Hybrid Fault Diagnosis and Isolation for Component and Sensor of APU in a Distributed Control System

This paper addresses the gas path component and sensor fault diagnosis and isolation(FDI) for the auxiliary power unit(APU). A nonlinear dynamic model and a distributed state estimator are combined for the distributed control system. The distributed extended Kalman filter(DEKF)is served as a state estimator,which is utilized to estimate the gas path components’ flow capacity. The DEKF includes one main filter and five sub-filter groups related to five sensors of APU and each sub-filter yields local state flow capacity. The main filter collects and fuses the local state information,and then the state estimations are feedback to the sub-filters. The packet loss model is introduced in the DEKF algorithm in the APU distributed control architecture. FDI strategy with a performance index named weight sum of squared residuals(WSSR) is designed and used to identify the APU sensor fault by removing one sub-filter each time. The very sensor fault occurs as its performance index WSSR is different from the remaining sub-filter combinations. And the estimated value of the soft redundancy replaces the fault sensor measurement to isolate the fault measurement. It is worth noting that the proposed approach serves for not only the sensor failure but also the hybrid fault issue of APU gas path components and sensors. The simulation and comparison are systematically carried out by using the APU test data,and the superiority of the proposed methodology is verified.

Multiobjective fault detection and isolation for flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicle

An application of the multiobjective fault detection and isolation（FDI） approach to an air-breathing hypersonic vehicle（HSV） longitudinal dynamics subject to disturbances is presented.Maintaining sustainable and safe flight of HSV is a challenging task due to its strong coupling effects,variable operating conditions and possible failures of system components.A common type of system faults for aircraft including HSV is the loss of effectiveness of its actuators and sensors.To detect and isolate multiple actuator/sensor failures,a faulty linear parameter-varying（LPV） model of HSV is derived by converting actuator/system component faults into equivalent sensor faults.Then a bank of LPV FDI observers is designed to track individual fault with minimum error and suppress the effects of disturbances and other fault signals.The simulation results based on the nonlinear flexible HSV model and a nominal LPV controller demonstrate the effectiveness of the fault estimation technique for HSV.

Suboptimal reliable guaranteed cost control for continuous-time systems with multi-criterion constraints

The suboptimal reliable guaranteed cost control （RGCC） with multi-criterion constraints is investigated for a class of uncertain continuous-time systems with sensor faults. A fauk model in sensors, which considers outage or partial degradation of sensors, is adopted. The influence of the disturbance on the quadratic stability of the closed-loop systems is analyzed. The reliable state-feedback controller is developed by a linear matrix inequalities （LMIs） approach, to minimize the upper bound of a quadratic cost fimction under the conditions that all the closed-loop poles be placed in a specified disk, and that the prescribed level of H∞ disturbance attenuation and the upper bound constraints of control inputs＇ magnitudes be guaranteed. Thus, with the above muki-criterion constraints, the resulting closed-loop system can provide satisfactory stability, transient property, a disturbance rejection level and minimized quadratic cost performance despite possible sensor faults.

Fault Tolerant Synchronization for a General Complex DynamicalNetwork with Random Delay

A fault tolerant synchronization strategy is proposed to synchronize a complex network with random time delays and sensor faults. Random time delays over the network transmission are described by using Markov chains. Based on the Lyapunov stability theory and stochastic analysis, several passive fault tolerant synchronization criteria are derived,which can be described in the form of linear matrix inequalities. Finally,a numerical simulation example is carried out and the results show the validity of the proposed fault tolerant synchronization controller.

LMI approach to reliable H_∞ control of linear systems

The reliable design problem for linear systems is concerned with. A more practical model of actuator faults than outage is considered. An LMI approach of designing reliable controller is presented for the case of actuator faults that can be modeled by a scaling factor. The resulting control systems are reliable in that they provide guaranteed asymptotic stability and H∞ performance when some control component （actuator） faults occur. A numerical example is also given to illustrate the design procedure and their effectiveness. Furthermore, the optimal standard controller and the optimal reliable controller are compared to show the necessity of reliable control.

Fault diagnosis method of hydraulic system based on fusion of neural network and D-S evidence theory

According to fault type diversity and fault information uncertainty problem of the hydraulic driven rocket launcher servo system（HDRLSS） , the fault diagnosis method based on the evidence theory and neural network ensemble is proposed. In order to overcome the shortcomings of the single neural network, two improved neural network models are set up at the com-mon nodes to simplify the network structure. The initial fault diagnosis is based on the iron spectrum data and the pressure, flow and temperature（PFT） characteristic parameters as the input vectors of the two improved neural network models, and the diagnosis result is taken as the basic probability distribution of the evidence theory. Then the objectivity of assignment is real-ized. The initial diagnosis results of two improved neural networks are fused by D-S evidence theory. The experimental results show that this method can avoid the misdiagnosis of neural network recognition and improve the accuracy of the fault diagnosis of HDRLSS.

Fault detection for sector-bounded non-linear systems with servo inputs and sensor stuck faults

This paper addresses the fault detection(FD)problem for discretetime sector-bounded non-linear systems with finite-frequency servo inputs.The non-linear systems are firstly modelled as multi-models.The main contributions are that a novel FD filter which combines the finite-frequency H∞and H−indices is designed.Different from the existing methods,the proposed FD scheme guarantees that the generated residuals are robust against the servo inputs in fault-free case and sensitive to them in faulty cases.Thus,the small sensor stuck faults including outagefaults can be detected.For this class of systems,the existing finite-frequency FD filter design methods are invalid.A new lemma is developed to characterise the system performances in finite-frequency domain.In addition,sufficient conditions for the existence of such a FD filter are derived by introducing slack variable and linear matrix inequalities techniques.Finally,an example is presented to demonstrate the method and its effectiveness.

Aircraft Engine Sensor Fault Diagnostics Based on Estimation of Engine's Health Degradation

A duty in development of an on-line fault detection algorithm is to make it associate with estimation of engine s health degradation. For this purpose,an on-line diagnostic algorithm is put forward. Using a tracking filter to estimate the engine s health condition over its lifetime,can be reconstructed an onboard model,which is then made to match a real aircraft gas turbine engine. Finally,a bank of Kalman filters is applied in fault detection and isola-tion (FDI) of sensors for the engine. Through the bank...

Fault diagnosis and isolation of the componentand sensor for aircraft engine

Aircraft engine component and sensor fault detection and isolation approach was proposed,which included fault type detection module and component-sensor simultaneous fault isolation module.The approach can not only distinguish among sensor fault,component fault and component-sensor simultaneous fault,but also isolate and locate sensor fault and the type of engine component fault when the engine component fault and the sensor faults occur simultaneously.The double-threshold mechanism has been proposed,in which the fault diagnostic threshold changed with the sensor type and the engine condition,and it greatly improved the accuracy and robustness of sensor fault diagnosis system.Simulation results show that the approach proposed can diagnose and isolate the sensor and engine component fault with improved accuracy.It effectively improves the fault diagnosis ability of aircraft engine.

Evaluate the impact of sensor accuracy on model performance in data-driven building fault detection and diagnostics using Monte Carlo simulation

The performance of data-driven fault detection and diagnostics(FDD)is heavily dependent on sensors.However,sensor inaccuracy and sensor faults are pervasive in building operation:inaccurate and missing sensor readings deteriorate FDD performance;sensor inaccuracy will also affect the selection of sensor for data-driven FDD in the model training process,which is another key factor of data-driven FDD performance.Sensor accuracy and sensor selection individually are well-studied research topics in this field,but the impact of sensor accuracy on sensor selection and its further impact on FDD performance has not been evaluated and quantified.In this paper,we developed a novel analysis methodology that comprehensively evaluates sensor fault on sensor selection and FDD accuracy.Monte Carlo simulation is applied to deal with multiple stochastic sensor inaccuracy and provide probabilistic analysis results of the impact of sensor inaccuracy on sensor selection and FDD accuracy.This methodology focuses on the net impact of fault states across a full sensor set.The developed methodology can be used for the early-stage sensor design and operation-stage sensor maintenance.A case study is conducted to demonstrate the analysis methodology using a commercial building model crated to Flexible Research Platform located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,USA.

Ship speed power performance under relative wind profiles in relation to sensor fault detection

Statistical data analysis and visualization approaches to identify ship speed power performance under relative wind(i.e.apparent wind)profiles are considered in this study.Ship performance and navigation data of a selected vessel are analyzed,where various data anomalies,i.e.sensor related erroneous data conditions,are identified.Those erroneous data conditions are investigated and several approaches to isolate such situations are also presented by considering appropriate data visualization methods.Then,the cleaned data are used to derive various relationships among ship performance and navigation parameters that have been visualized in this study,appropriately.The results show that the wind profiles along ship routes can be used to evaluate vessel performance and navigation conditions by assuming the respective sea states relate to their wind conditions.Hence,the results are useful to derive appropriate mathematical models that represent ship performance and navigation conditions.Such mathematical models can be used for weather routing type applications(i.e.voyage planning),where the respective weather forecast can be used to derive optimal ship routes to improve vessel performance and reduce fuel consumption.This study presents not only an overview of statistical data analysis of ship performance and navigation data but also the respective challenges in data anomalies(i.e.erroneous data intervals and sensor faults)due to onboard sensors and data handling systems.Furthermore,the respective solutions to such challenges in data quality have also been presented by considering data visualization approaches.