This paper deals with two of the main tasks of Fault Monitoring Systems (FMS): fault detection and fault identiication. During fault detection, the FMS should recognize that the plant behavior is abnormal, and therefore, that the plant is not working properly. During fault identiication, the FMS should conclude which type of failure has occurred. The rst goal of this work is to consolidate a ne...

Nearly ten years have elapsed since the introduction of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA). At the time the agreement was negotiated concern was expressed that the reduction of tariff barriers would remove the incentive for much US foreign direct investment (FDI) into Canada. This paper provides empirical evidence to show that US foreign direct investment into Canada has continued to grow...

This paper features the combination of model-based predictive control and dynamic inversion into a constrained and globally valid control method for fault-tolerant flight-control purposes. The fact that the approach is both constrained and model-based creates the possibility to incorporate additional constraints, or even a new model, in case of a failure. Both of these properties lead to the fa...

Simultaneous fault detection and control for stochastic time-delay systems Xian-Ji Meng & Guang-Hong Yang a College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China b School of Mathematics and System Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China c State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, Northeastern Univer...

-----------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT--------------------------------------------------------------We present in this paper as an introduction to soft computing techniques for fault tolerant systems and the terminology with different ways of achieving fault tolerance. The paper focuses on the problem of fault tolerance using soft computing techniques. T...

In this paper we investigate the different techniques of fault tolerance which are used in many real time distributed systems. The main focus is on types of fault occurring in the system, fault detection techniques and the recovery techniques used. A fault can occur due to link failure, resource failure or by any other reason is to be tolerated for working the system smoothly and accurately. Th...

As fault tolerance is the ability of a system to perform its function correctly even in the presence of faults. Therefore, different fault tolerance techniques are critical for improving the efficient utilization of expensive resources in high performance data grid systems. One of the most popular strategies of fault tolerance is the replication, it creates multiple copies of resources in the s...

Most conventional software-based approaches for fault tolerant Ethernet (FTE) adopt a heartbeat mechanism for fault detection. However, due to the tradeoff between the number of nodes and the fault detection time, these conventional approaches do not provide scalability for large-scale networks. To solve this scalability issue, we previously proposed the SAFE scheme, which utilizes multiple sub...

This paper develops a new approach to double fault isolation in linear systems with the aid of directional residuals. The method of residual generation for computational as well as internal forms is applied. Isolation of double faults is based on the investigation of the coplanarity of the residual vector with the planes defined by the individual pairs of directional fault vectors. Additionally...

still leaves identifying which LBs are to be reconngured. For fault tolerance , this entails fault detection/location. For yield enhancement, a method for identifying faulty LBs that is transparent to the user is required.