The objective of ESPRIT-project 6731 FTMPS [1] is to develop techniques and system software to integrate Fault Tolerance in Massively Parallel Systems [2] . This covers the whole range from error detection, over fault-diagnosis and fault isolation to system and application recovery. Important is the research for applicability in massively parallel systems as well as the development of system so...

The railway assets studied in this project, are those widely distributed pieces of equipment that are critical to the dependable operation of the railway system. A failed asset is likely to cause significant delay to rail services, and may even place the system into an unsafe state. A generic fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) solution for a number of railway assets of different types is there...

In the recent years the wind turbine industry has focused on optimizing the cost of energy. One of the important factors in this is to increase reliability of the wind turbines. Advanced fault detection, isolation and accommodation are important tools in this process. Clearly most faults are dealt with best at a wind turbine control level. However, some faults are better dealt with at the wind ...

In this paper, the problem of test suite minimization for testing in context is studied and some results are proposed. The test architecture considered is general enough to allow the context and the component to have external inputs and outputs. Using a given fault model for testing in context, conditions are provided to detect all the redundant transitions that do not need to be tested. A comp...

In this paper, we consider fault detection, isolation and reconstruction problem for descriptor systems with actuator faults and sensor faults, respectively. When actuator faults exist in the system, the fault detection and isolation (FDI) problem is solved through an unknown input observer regarding remaining faults excluded a specified fault as unknown inputs. Whereas, in existing sensor faul...

Realistic survivable systems must assume that faults will occur within the system. When a malicious fault is activated, it may work to cause damage and to spread; until the system has recovered from this damage, it will have a lower degree of survivability than it did before the fault occurred. By proactively containing faults that would otherwise spread throughout the system, we can reduce the...

This paper introduces a set of comprehensive general reasoning rules about single faults based on a diagnostic matrix. The reasoning scheme unifies inference about faults based on a conventional binary diagnostic matrix, a twoand three-valued fault isolation system as well as on their fuzzy counterparts. There are introduced and defined notions of alternative and dominant fault signatures, fuzz...

Diagnosability is an important issue in the design of diagnostic systems, because it helps identify whether sufficient information is available to distinguish all the faults. Diagnosability of hybrid systems, however, is challenging, because mode transitions may occur during fault isolation. We present an event-based framework for hybrid systems diagnosis based on a qualitative abstraction of m...

In this paper, a bibliographical review on reconfigurable (active) fault-tolerant control systems (FTCS) is presented. The existing approaches to fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) and fault-tolerant control (FTC) in a general framework of active fault-tolerant control systems (AFTCS) are considered and classified according to different criteria such as design methodologies and applications. A...

Fault detection and isolation (FDI) has become a useful strategy for determining fault appearance and on-line reconfiguration. However, unknown scenarios during on-line performance are still an open field for research. Different methods, such as knowledge-based techniques or analytical redundancy, have been followed. Nevertheless, both methods present inherent drawbacks for isolation. The prese...