Robust estimation and fault diagnostics for aircraft engines with uncertain model data

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2822-2827

  Yedavalli, Rama K ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALARM SYSTEMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CONTROL THEORY; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ENGINES; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FAULT DETECTION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INGESTION (ENGINES); KALMAN FILTERS; LEAD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; MODAL ANALYSIS; MODEL STRUCTURES; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SCHRODINGER EQUATION; STEEL ANALYSIS; TURBINES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVE FILTERS;

ADAPTIVE ESTIMATORS; CONSTANT THRESHOLD; ENGINE DYNAMICS; ENGINE PARAMETERS; FALSE ALARMS (FA); FAULT DETECTION ALGORITHM; FAULT DIAGNOSTICS; FILTER BASED; GROWING AND PRUNING; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; LINEAR FILTERING; LINEAR MODELING; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; MODELING UNCERTAINTIES; NONLINEARITY (INCLUDING BIFURCATION THEORY); PARAMETER UNCERTAINTIES; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; RADIAL-BASIS FUNCTION (RBF); ROBUST ESTIMATIONS; SIMULATION MODELLING; SIMULATION RESULTS; TURBINE ENGINES; TURBINE INLET TEMPERATURE (TIT); UNCERTAIN MODELING;

AIRCRAFT ENGINES;

EID: 46449139811     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2007.4283156     Document Type: Conference Paper

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