Fault-tolerant Control and Some Applications

Professor Mogens Blanke (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Fault-tolerant control is the synonym for a set of recent techniques that were developed to increase plant availability and reduce the risk of safety hazards. The aim is to prevent simple faults developing into serious failures. This is obtained through on-line fault diagnosis, automatic condition assessment and calculation of appropriate remedial actions to avoid certain consequences of a fault. The seminar introduces tools to analyze and explore structure and other fundamental properties of an automated system to determine whether fault-tolerance could be obtained and redundancy in the controlled process would be fully utilized. The lecture presents recent examples from applications: the Danish Ørsted satellite, ship navigation and control of induction motors.

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