Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control
By: by Mogens Blanke, Michel Kinnaert, Jan Lunze, Marcel Staroswiecki
Contributors: Kinnaert, Michel; Lunze, Jan; Staroswiecki, Marcel
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 571
ISBN-13: 9783662053461; 9783662053447
Subjects: System safety; Computer system performance; Chemical engineering; Chemistry
Description: Fault-tolerant control aims at graceful degradation of automated systems in case of faults. It satisfies the industrial demand for enhanced availability and safety, in contrast to traditional reactions to faults that bring about sudden shutdowns and loss of availability. The book presents effective model-based analysis and design methods for fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control. Architectural and structural models are used to analyse the propagation of the fault through the process, to test the fault detectability and to find the redundancies in the process that can be used to ensure fault tolerance. Design methods for diagnostic systems and fault-tolerant controllers are presented for processes that are described by analytical models, by discrete-event models or that can be dealt with as quantised systems. Four case studies on pilot processes show the applicability of the presented methods. The theoretical results are illustrated by two running examples which are used throughout the book.The book addresses engineering students, engineers in industry and researchers who wish to get a survey over the variety of approaches to process diagnosis and fault-tolerant control.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction to diagnosis and fault-tolerant control; title: Examples; title: Models of dynamical systems; title: Analysis based on components and architecture; title: Structural analysis; title: Fault diagnosis of continuous-variable systems; title: Fault-tolerant control of continuous-variable systems; title: Diagnosis and reconfigurable control of discrete-event systems; title: Diagnosis and reconfiguration of quantised systems; title: Application examples.