Fault Detection and Isolation for Spacecraft Systems: An Application to a Power Distribution Testbed

TitleFault Detection and Isolation for Spacecraft Systems: An Application to a Power Distribution Testbed
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsCarl, J. D., D. L. C. Mack, A. Tantawy, G. Biswas, and X. D. Koutsoukos
Refereed DesignationRefereed
Conference NameSAFEPROCESS 2012, 8th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes
Date Published08/2012
Conference LocationMexico City, Mexico
ISBN Number978-3-902823-09-0
Abstract

Modern electrical power disribution systems play a critical role in system operations. Therefore, early fault detection and isolation is essential to maintaining system safety and avoiding catastrophic failures. This paper discusses a fault isolation scheme based on a qualitative fault signature-based isolation mechanism that applies to abrupt, incipient and intermittent faults in the system. We discuss the isolation algorithms for a combination of these faults, and demonstrate their performance on a set of test cases generated from a NASA Ames spacecraft power distribution testbed. Our results show good isolation accuracy with 103 out of 134 faulty scenarios isolated correctly. Most of the isolation errors can be attributed to errors in the detection scheme.

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