TMR sensors for reliable S2A architectures

Author

Abouelazayem, Shereen S. ; Ibrahim, Ahmed A. ; Morsi, Mennatallah A. ; Abou Eita, Merna N. ; Hussein, Mostafa W. ; Moustafa, Eslam A. ; Halawa, Hassan H. ; Daoud, Ramez M. ; Amer, Hassanein H. ; ElSayed, Hany M.

Author_Institution

Electron. & Commun. Eng. Dept., American Univ. in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2014

fDate

6-8 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

624

Lastpage

630

Abstract

In this paper, TMR Sensors are applied to a fault-tolerant direct sensor to actuator (S2A) architecture for Ethernet-based Networked Control Systems (NCSs). The architecture is studied using switched Fast and Gigabit Ethernet. It is shown analytically and verified via OMNeT++ simulations that the architecture succeeds in meeting system end-to-end delay and strict zero packet loss (no over-delayed packets) requirements when using Gigabit Ethernet. Reliability modeling is carried out to quantitatively assess the benefits of the TMR sensors architecture when compared to an S2A fault-tolerant controller architecture.

Keywords

computerised instrumentation; control engineering computing; fault tolerant computing; fault tolerant control; local area networks; networked control systems; reliability; sensors; Ethernet-based networked control system; NCS; OMNeT++ simulation; S2A fault-tolerant controller architecture; TMR sensor; end-to-end delay; fault-tolerant direct sensor to actuator architecture; overdelayed packet; reliability modeling; switched fast gigabit Ethernet; triple modular redundancy sensor; zero packet loss; Actuators; Delays; Reliability; Sensor systems; Tunneling magnetoresistance; Ethernet; OMNeT++; TMR; fault-tolerance; networked control systems; reliability; sensor actuator networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT), 2014 6th International Congress on

Conference_Location

St. Petersburg

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUMT.2014.7002173

Filename

7002173