This paper examines various aspects of the design process and subsequent field test measurements of a large and complex substation grounding system. The study and measurements show that soil layering and lead interference can have a significant impact on the appropriate test location that yields the exact substation ground impedance. Applying a specific percentage rule such as the 61.8% rule fo...

Fault Tree Analysis is a well-known method for reliability evaluation of systems. However, manual construction of fault trees is a tedious and time-consuming task. Thus, many researchers tried to get benefit of high speed and accuracy of digital computers to automate this process. Automated construction of fault trees can be very useful in system reliability analysis, especially in design step,...

In this paper general simulations of algorithms designed for fully operational BSP machines on BSP machines with faulty processors or unavailable processors are developed. The fail-stop model is considered, that is, if a processor fails or becomes unavailable it remains so until the end of the computation. The faults are random, that is, a processor may fail independently with probablility a, a...

Writing distributed applications is diicult because the programmer has to explicitly juggle many quite diierent concerns, including application functionality, distribution structure, fault tolerance, security, open computing, and others. An important goal is to separate the application functionality from the other concerns. This article presents one step towards that goal. We show how to integr...

This paper proposes an integrated framework for fault prediction in the robot dead reckoning system. The integrated framework is built by particle filter and support vector machine (SVM). On the basis, the weighted fault probability parameters can be extracted to train the prediction model. Different from the traditional particle filter fault prediction model, the proposed framework can overcom...

Abstract The manuscript proposes a data‐based integral terminal sliding mode control approach to determine fault‐tolerant (FTC) concerning class of discrete‐time nonlinear systems (DTNS) containing sensor fault. proposed scheme can be readily implemented because it purely utilizes the input and output data system employ model called compact form dynamic linearization (CFDL) model, while one‐ste...

ii and the calculated CCT (as indicator for transient stability) and MDO (as indicator for oscillatory stability). Input features of ANN are selected to characterize the following: Changes in system topology and power distributions due to outage of major equipment such as transmission line, generation unit or large load Change in fault location and the severity of the fault Variation in loading...