• DocumentCode
    2541401
  • Title

    Fault Tolerant Control for EMS systems with sensor failure

  • Author

    Michail, Konstantinos ; Zolotas, Argyrios ; Goodall, Roger ; Pearson, John

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Loughborough Univ., Loughborough, UK
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    24-26 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    712
  • Lastpage
    717
  • Abstract
    The paper presents a method to recover the performance of an EMS (Electromagnetic suspension) under faulty air gap measurement. The controller is a combination of classical control loops, a Kalman estimator and analytical redundancy (for the air gap signal). In case of a faulty air gap sensor the air gap signal is recovered using the Kalman filter and analytical redundancy. Simulations verify the proposed sensor Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) method for the EMS system.
  • Keywords
    Kalman filters; electromagnetic devices; fault tolerance; magnetic levitation; Kalman estimator; Kalman filter; air gap signal; analytical redundancy; control loop; electromagnetic suspension; fault tolerant control; faulty air gap measurement; faulty air gap sensor; sensor failure; Automatic control; Control systems; Electromagnets; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Magnetic levitation; Medical services; Rails; Redundancy; Sensor systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Control and Automation, 2009. MED '09. 17th Mediterranean Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Thessaloniki
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4684-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4685-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MED.2009.5164627
  • Filename
    5164627