Decentralized detection of a class of non-abrupt faults with application to formations of unmanned airships

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 484-493

  Léchevin, Nicolas ^a   Rabbath, Camille Alain ^b  

^a Numerica Technologies Inc   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooperative systems; Distributed control; Fault detection; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

AIRSHIPS; DEGRADATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES; COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS; DECENTRALIZED DETECTIONS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; FAULT DETECTORS; FORMATION FLYINGS; HEADING ANGLES; HIGH FIDELITIES; MODEL-BASED; MULTI VEHICLES; PARAMETRIC UNCERTAINTIES; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATIONS; UNMANNED AIRSHIPS; VEHICLE PERFORMANCE;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 63049086704     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2008.2000990     Document Type: Article

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