A multi-tasking strategy combining controls with diagnostics for a control system with duplex processors

Author

Park, Se-Hwa ; Seo, Chang Jun ; Kim, Byung Kook ; Lee, Jae Hyeok ; Bien, Zeungnam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korean Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Taejoon, South Korea

Volume

3

fYear

1994

fDate

5-9 Sep 1994

Firstpage

1779

Abstract

Our experiences of implementing a fault tolerant control system is reported. To enhance the reliability, a method for implementing software for the control system with dual structure in processor module is proposed and implemented. By using the multitasking function the overall software for a processor module can be divided into five tasks which includes controls and diagnostics. To achieve the control objective and fault diagnostics effectively the tasks are performed in the dual processor modules, independently. An experimental result shows that the backup processor module can be successfully substituted for the primary processor module when the latter happens to fail, while data relating the failure informations are exchanged continuously via shared memories

Keywords

computerised control; fault tolerant computing; multiprocessing systems; multiprogramming; redundancy; dual processor modules; fault diagnostics; fault tolerant control system; multitasking function; processor module substitution; reliability; shared memories; Automatic control; Control systems; Fault detection; Fault diagnosis; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; Processor scheduling; Real time systems; Redundancy; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation, 1994. IECON '94., 20th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bologna

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1328-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.1994.398084

Filename

398084