Recent methods and tools for design of fault-tolerant control systems
Speaker: Professor Mogens Blanke, Technical University of Denmark
When: 2006-04-03 15:00:00
Venue: 78-622
Host: Dr G Hovland
Abstract:Fault-tolerant control aims at achieving higher availability and
safety of automated systems, without the excessive pricetag on fully
hardware redundant systems. Fault-tolerant control aims at utilizing
diagnosis to isolate possible faults and use available redundancy to
obtain smart reconfiguration if faults should occur. The seminar
introduces analysis of system structure as a very effective tool to
analyse complex systems and to construct diagnostic algorithms for
large, nonlinear systems. A Matlab-based toolbox (SaTool) is
demonstrated. Two examples are given, one on fault-tolerant design
of a mechatronic steering by wire system, the other on an
intelligent control system taking care of hovering control of a ship
close to dangerous areas.
Biography:Mogens Blanke is professor of Automation at the Technical University
of Denmark and is adjoin professor at the CeSOS centre of excellence
at NTNU in Norway. His research interest is fault-tolerant control
and diagnosis. He has contributed to the development of
fault-tolerant control, which is now a hot topic at several
international symposia and he has applied his ideas to various
technical systems: autonomous satellite attitude control, marine
control systems, autonomous robots and to mechatronic systems. He is
an author of the text book: Diagnosis and Fault-tolerant Control
(Springer 2003), and is a regular invited speaker at Ph.D. courses
and seminars.
Type: ITEE Seminar
Contact:Dr G Hovland, seminar host (hovland@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)