Analysing the reliability of actuation elements in series and parallel configurations for high-redundancy actuation

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1504-1521

  Steffen, Thomas ^a   Schiller, Frank ^b   Blum, Michael ^c   Dixon, Roger ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Beckhoff Automation   (Germany)

^c Exidacom GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

bionics; fault tolerance; high redundancy actuator (HRA); mechanical actuation; multi state system; redundancy

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION SYSTEMS; CORE FUNCTIONALITY; HIGH-REDUNDANCY ACTUATOR (HRA); K-OUT-OF-N SYSTEM; MECHANICAL ACTUATIONS; MULTI-STATE SYSTEM; PARALLEL CONFIGURATION; STRUCTURED PROBLEMS;

BIOMIMETICS; BIONICS; FAULT TOLERANCE; MECHANICAL ACTUATORS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY THEORY;

REDUNDANCY;

EID: 84878708987     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2012.659694     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Blanke, M., Kinnaert, M., Lunze, J., and Staroswiecki, M. (2006), Diagnosis and Fault-tolerant Control, Berlin: Springer.
2. Blanke, M., Staroswiecki, M., and Wu, N.E. (2001), 'Concepts and Methods in Fault-tolerant Control', in Proceedings of the American Control Conference '01, Arlington, pp. 2606-2620.
3. Blanke, M., and Thomsen, J.S. (2006), 'Electrical Steering of Vehicles-Fault-tolerant Analysis and Design', Microelectronics and Reliability, 46, 1421-1432.
4. Du, X., Dixon, R., Goodall, R.M., and Zolotas, A.C. (2006), 'Assessment of Strategies for Control of High Redundancy Actuators', Proceedings of the ACTUATOR 2006, Bremen, June.
5. Du, X., Dixon, R., Goodall, R.M., and Zolotas, A.C. (2007), 'LQG Control for a High Redundancy Actuator', in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Zurich, September.
6. Frank, P.M. (1990), 'Fault Diagnosis in Dynamic Systems using Analytical and Knowledge-based Redundancy-A Survey and Some New Results', Automatica, 26, 459-474.
7. Heidergott, B., Olsder, G.J., and van der Woude, J. (2005), Max Plus at Work: Modeling and Analysis of Synchronized Systems: A Course on Max-plus Algebra and its Applications, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
8. Jenab, K., and Dhillon, B.S. (2006), 'Assessment of Reversible Multi-state k-out-of-n: G/F/Load-Sharing Systems with Flow-graph Models', Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 91, 765-771.
9. Jiang, B., Yang, H., and Shi, P. (2010), 'Switching Fault Tolerant Control Design via Global Dissipativity', International Journal of Systems Science, 41, 1003-1012.
10. Oppenheimer, M.W., and Doman, D.B. (June, 2006), 'Control Allocation for Overactuated Systems', in Proceedings of the 14th Mediteranean Conference on Control and Automation, Ancona.
11. Pham, H. (2003), Handbook of Reliability Engineering, New York: Springer.
12. Ribeiro, R.L.A., Jacobina, C.B., da Silva, E.R.C., and Lima, A.M.N. (2004), 'Fault-tolerant Voltage-fed PWM Inverter AC Motor Drive Systems', IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 51, 439-446.
13. Shammas, N.Y.A., Withanage, R., and Chamund, D. (2006), 'Review of Series and Parallel Connection of IGBTs', IEE Proceedings Circuits, Devices and Systems, 153, 34-39.
14. Steffen, T. (2005), Control Reconfiguration of Dynamical Systems: Linear Approaches and Structural Tests, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Berlin: Springer.
15. Steffen, T., Davies, J., Dixon, R., Goodall, R.M., Pearson, J., and Zolotas, A.C. (2008), 'Failure Modes and Probabilities of a High Redundancy Actuator', in Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, July, pp. 3234-3239.
16. Steffen, T., Davies, J., Dixon, R., Goodall, R.M., and Zolotas, A.C. (2007), 'Using a Series of Moving Coils as a High Redundancy Actuator', in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, September, Zurich.
17. Steffen, T., Schiller, F., Blum, M., and Dixon, R. (2009), 'Increasing the Reliability of High Redundancy Actuators by Using Elements in Series and Parallel', in Proceedings of the The 28th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security SAFECOMP 2009, eds. B. Buth, G. Rabe, and T. Seyfarth, Hamburg: Springer, pp. 270-282.