Failure Detection with Uncertain Models,

Abstract

In this paper the author considers the issue of robust failure detection. In one way or another all failure detection methods generate signals which tend to highlight the presence of particular failures if they have actually occurred. However, if any model uncertainties have effects on the observables which are at all like those of one or more of the failure modes, these will also be accentuated. Consequently the problem of robust failure detection is concerned with generating signals which are maximally sensitive to some effects (failures) and minimally sensitive to others (model errors).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA127881

Entities

People

  • Alan S. Willsky
  • George C. Verghese
  • Xi-cheng Lou

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Control Systems
  • Covariance
  • Damage Detection
  • Decomposition
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Flight Testing
  • Linear Algebra
  • Noise
  • Observation
  • Optimization
  • Redundancy
  • White Noise

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.
  • Systems Analysis and Design