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2 Citations
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8 December 2022

The paper deals with a robust sensor fault estimation by proposing a novel algorithm capable of reconstructing faults occurring in the system. The provided approach relies on calculating the fault estimation adaptively in every discrete time instance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,555 Views
17 Pages

Adaptive Fault Estimation for Hyperbolic PDEs

  • Yuan Yuan,
  • Xiaodong Xu and
  • Stevan Dubljevic

8 July 2021

The new adaptive fault estimation scheme is proposed for a class of hyperbolic partial differential equations in this paper. The multiplicative actuator and sensor faults are considered. There are two cases that require special consideration: (1). on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,381 Views
21 Pages

5 December 2020

This paper proposes a fault estimation and fault-tolerant control strategy with two observers for a pump-controlled electro-hydraulic system (PCEHS) under the presence of internal leakage faults and an external loading force. The mathematical model o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,497 Views
14 Pages

15 February 2022

This paper considers the observer-based fault estimation and fault-tolerant control for descriptor Markovian jump systems (DMJSs). The goal of this paper is to estimate the actuator faults, sensor faults, and the state simultaneously, and then design...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,186 Views
17 Pages

5 August 2021

For the problem of actuator-integrated fault estimation (FE) and fault tolerant control (FTC) for the electric power steering (EPS) system of a forklift, firstly, a dynamic model of a forklift EPS system with actuator faults was established; then, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,395 Views
26 Pages

10 May 2023

This paper investigates an event-triggered framework for addressing fault estimation and fault tolerance issues in discrete-time cyber-physical systems (CPSs) with partial state saturations and random false data injection attacks (FDIAs). A stochasti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,123 Views
16 Pages

A Sensor-Fault-Estimation Method for Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles

  • Tianyu Lan,
  • Zhi-Wei Gao,
  • Haishuang Yin and
  • Yuanhong Liu

7 September 2023

In recent years, electric vehicles powered by lithium-ion batteries have developed rapidly, and the safety and reliability of lithium-ion batteries have been a paramount issue. Battery management systems are highly dependent on sensor measurements to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,289 Views
17 Pages

16 December 2021

The demand for low voltage DC (LVDC) distribution systems is increasing due to the rapid development of power conversion technology, the increase of DC-based digital loads, and the expansion of DC-based distributed generation (DG). For the stable ope...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,073 Views
31 Pages

21 September 2019

The HVDC transmission system is winning hearts of researchers and electrical engineers because of its notable merits as compared to the HVAC transmission system in the case of long-distance bulk power transmission. The HVDC transmission system is kno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,973 Views
14 Pages

13 August 2019

Early detection and diagnosis of wind turbine faults is critical for applying a possible maintenance and control strategy to avoid catastrophic incidents. This paper presents a novel method to estimate the parameter of faults in a wind turbine. In th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
868 Views
19 Pages

1 September 2025

This paper investigates the joint state and fault estimation problem for a class of nonlinear systems subject to both measurement censoring (MC) and random missing measurements (MMs). Recognizing that state estimation for nonlinear systems in complex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,788 Views
26 Pages

Fractional-Order Sliding Mode Observer for Actuator Fault Estimation in a Quadrotor UAV

  • Vicente Borja-Jaimes,
  • Antonio Coronel-Escamilla,
  • Ricardo Fabricio Escobar-Jiménez,
  • Manuel Adam-Medina,
  • Gerardo Vicente Guerrero-Ramírez,
  • Eduardo Mael Sánchez-Coronado and
  • Jarniel García-Morales

20 April 2024

In this paper, we present the design of a fractional-order sliding mode observer (FO-SMO) for actuator fault estimation in a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (QUAV) system. Actuator faults can significantly compromise the stability and performance o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,426 Views
16 Pages

Timely and accurate fault diagnosis for a lithium-ion battery pack is critical to ensure its safety. However, the early fault of a battery pack is difficult to detect because of its unobvious fault effect and nonlinear time-varying characteristics. I...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,924 Views
17 Pages

10 February 2021

This paper is concerned with the state and fault estimation issue for nonlinear systems with sensor saturations and fault signals. For the sake of avoiding the communication burden, an event-triggering protocol is utilized to govern the transmission...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,791 Views
15 Pages

30 May 2020

The potential short-circuit current in active distribution network features time-variance with the increasing distributed generations. This feature makes the online estimation of fault level necessary. In this paper, a novel online estimation method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,308 Views
20 Pages

In this paper, a fault estimation technique is proposed for discrete-time nonlinear interconnected systems with uncertain interconnections. To achieve the fault estimation, the decentralized fuzzy observer is adopted based on the Takagi–Sugeno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,434 Views
15 Pages

Online Parameter Estimation for Fault Identification in Multi-Terminal DC Distribution Grids

  • Ting Wang,
  • Liliuyuan Liang,
  • Xinrang Feng,
  • Ferdinanda Ponci and
  • Antonello Monti

7 September 2021

Fast and accurate identification of short-circuit faults is important for post-fault service restoration and maintenance in DC distribution grids. Yet multiple power sources and complex system topologies complicate the fault identification in multi-t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,654 Views
18 Pages

12 January 2018

Establishing the schemes of accurate and computationally efficient performance estimation and fault diagnosis for turbofan engines has become a new research focus and challenges. It is able to increase reliability and stability of turbofan engine and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,876 Views
18 Pages

24 June 2023

The fault detection time identified by relying on the over-voltage criterion of zero-sequence voltage often lags behind the actual occurrence time of ground faults, which may cause fault protection methods based on transient quantity principles to mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,884 Views
25 Pages

23 January 2018

In this paper, a synthesized design of fault-detection filter and fault estimator is considered for a class of discrete-time stochastic systems in the framework of event-triggered transmission scheme subject to unknown disturbances and deception atta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,455 Views
16 Pages

27 November 2024

This paper focuses on simultaneous estimation of states and faults for a linear time-invariant (LTI) system observed by sensor networks. Each sensor node is equipped with an observer, which uses only local measurements and local interaction with neig...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,254 Views
12 Pages

6 August 2022

A practical fixed-time fault estimation observer strategy for non-linear systems using an unknown input observer scheme is investigated. The external disturbances of non-linear systems are decoupled by an unknown input observer technique; therefore,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,362 Views
16 Pages

A Martingale Posterior-Based Fault Detection and Estimation Method for Electrical Systems of Industry

  • Chao Cheng,
  • Weijun Wang,
  • He Di,
  • Xuedong Li,
  • Haotong Lv and
  • Zhiwei Wan

12 October 2024

The improvement of information sciences promotes the utilization of data for process monitoring. As the core of modern automation, time-stamped signals are used to estimate the system state and construct the data-driven model. Many recent studies cla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,495 Views
19 Pages

20 December 2022

In this paper, the problem of actuator and sensor faults of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (QUAV) system is studied. In the system fault model, time delay, nonlinear term, and disturbances of QUAV during the flight are considered. A fault estima...

  • Article
  • Open Access
668 Views
24 Pages

23 April 2025

Distributed interconnected systems are complex dynamic systems where every single subsystem has an impact on other subsystems. Actuators are key components in interconnected dynamic systems, which are prone to faults due to age and unexpected conditi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,660 Views
16 Pages

2 June 2023

Cable is crucial to the control and instrumentation of machines and facilities. Therefore, early diagnosis of cable faults is the most effective approach to prevent system downtime and maximize productivity. We focused on a “soft fault state&rd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
856 Views
22 Pages

7 May 2025

This paper addresses fault estimation in discrete-time semi-Markov jump neural networks (s-MJNNs) under the Round-Robin protocol and proposes an innovative extended state observer-based approach. Unlike studies considering only constant transition ra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,336 Views
18 Pages

20 May 2024

Today, Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSMs) are a dominant choice in industry applications. During operation, different possible faults in the system can occur, so early and automated fault detection and severity estimation are required to ens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,549 Views
17 Pages

Estimation of Bearing Fault Severity in Line-Connected and Inverter-Fed Three-Phase Induction Motors

  • Wagner Fontes Godoy,
  • Daniel Morinigo-Sotelo,
  • Oscar Duque-Perez,
  • Ivan Nunes da Silva,
  • Alessandro Goedtel and
  • Rodrigo Henrique Cunha Palácios

6 July 2020

This paper addresses a comprehensive evaluation of a bearing fault evolution and its consequent prediction concerning the remaining useful life. The proper prediction of bearing faults in their early stage is a crucial factor for predictive maintenan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,748 Views
21 Pages

11 June 2019

The main objective of this paper is to develop an actuator and sensor fault estimation framework taking into account various uncertainty sources. In particular, these are divided into three groups: sensor measurement noise, process-external exogenous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
973 Views
17 Pages

14 May 2025

Accurate fault localization is critical for ensuring reliable power supply in active distribution networks, yet conventional state estimation (SE)-based methods fail to differentiate authentic fault responses from measurement distortions due to uncer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,554 Views
20 Pages

20 March 2024

In this article, the issue of joint state and fault estimation is ironed out for delayed state-saturated systems subject to energy harvesting sensors. Under the effect of energy harvesting, the sensors can harvest energy from the external environment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,552 Views
13 Pages

Jordan Canonical Form for Solving the Fault Diagnosis and Estimation Problems

  • Oleg Sergiyenko,
  • Alexey Zhirabok,
  • Paolo Mercorelli,
  • Alexander Zuev,
  • Vladimir Filaretov and
  • Vera Tyrsa

The suggested methods for solving fault diagnosis and estimation problems are based on the use of the Jordan canonical form. The diagnostic observer, virtual sensor, interval, and sliding mode observer design problems are considered. Algorithms have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,372 Views
19 Pages

12 December 2022

In this paper, we present the fault estimation of a motor in rack-type electrical power steering (R-EPS) system using an artificial neural network (ANN) observer and the comparison study of estimation performance between ANN observer and model-based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,044 Views
17 Pages

26 June 2022

The fault quantification of a tapered roller bearing (TRB) can provide a reliable guide for predictive maintenance. Currently, damage size estimation based on vibration signals has been proposed and developed. However, most approaches are focused on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,410 Views
22 Pages

9 October 2023

This research addresses the intricate challenges of fault estimation (FE) and fault-tolerant control (FTC) within a specific subset of T-S fuzzy systems. These systems are characterized by their localized nonlinear models, the presence of unknown inp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
732 Views
37 Pages

An AI Digital Platform for Fault Diagnosis and RUL Estimation in Drivetrain Systems Under Varying Operating Conditions

  • Dimitrios M. Bourdalos,
  • Xenofon D. Konstantinou,
  • Josef Koutsoupakis,
  • Ilias A. Iliopoulos,
  • Kyriakos Kritikakos,
  • George Karyofyllas,
  • Panayotis E. Spiliotopoulos,
  • Ioannis E. Saramantas,
  • John S. Sakellariou and
  • Sotirios Natsiavas
  • + 3 authors

24 December 2025

Drivetrain systems operate under varying operating conditions (OCs), which often obscure early-stage fault signatures and hinder robust condition monitoring (CM). This work introduces an AI digital platform developed during the EEDRIVEN project, feat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,266 Views
15 Pages

9 September 2019

Fault diagnosis of rolling bearings is essential to ensure the efficient and safe operation of mechanical equipment. The extraction of fault features of the repetitive transient component from noisy vibration signals is key to bearing fault diagnosis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,354 Views
23 Pages

14 March 2020

Fault size estimation is of great importance to bearing performance degradation assessment and life prediction. Until now, fault size estimation has generally been based on acoustic emission signals or vibration signals; an approach based on current...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,449 Views
24 Pages

23 September 2024

Advanced receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (ARAIM) is an integrity technique for a global navigation satellite system (GNSS), centered on the multiple hypothesis solution separation (MHSS) test, which assesses the consistency between a subset...

  • Article
  • Open Access
441 Views
30 Pages

26 December 2025

A state and fault estimator is designed in this paper for nonlinear complex networks using binary encoding schemes subject to parameter uncertainties, randomly switching couplings, randomly occurring deception attacks and bounded stochastic noises. A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
11,188 Views
16 Pages

20 December 2019

With the increase in usage of electric vehicles (EVs), the demand for Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries is also on the rise. The battery management system (BMS) plays an important role in ensuring the safe and reliable operation of the battery in EVs. S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,401 Views
26 Pages

6 December 2017

This paper proposes a new scheme of reconstructing current sensor faults and estimating unknown load disturbance for a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM)-driven system. First, the original PMSM system is transformed into two subsystems; the fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access

11 March 2026

This study addresses the problem of robust actuator fault estimation for a class of critical linear continuous-time systems subject to state time-varying delays, external disturbances, and actuator faults. A learning observer is proposed to achieve t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,105 Views
16 Pages

28 November 2023

This paper reports the design of an iterative-learning-scheme-based fault-estimation method for interconnected nonlinear multi-flexible manipulator systems with arbitrary initial value. For state estimation, observers are employed to reconstruct the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,872 Views
25 Pages

28 January 2023

Reaction wheels (RW), the most common attitude control systems in satellites, are highly prone to failure. A satellite needs to be oriented in a particular direction to maneuver and accomplish its mission goals; losing the reaction wheel can lead to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,772 Views
18 Pages

An Adaptive Early Fault Detection Model of Induced Draft Fans Based on Multivariate State Estimation Technique

  • Ruijun Guo,
  • Guobin Zhang,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Lei Zhou,
  • Haicun Yu,
  • Meng Lei and
  • You Lv

6 August 2021

The induced draft (ID) fan is an important piece of auxiliary equipment in coal-fired power plants. Early fault detection of the ID fan can provide predictive maintenance and reduce unscheduled shutdowns, thus improving the reliability of the power g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,748 Views
16 Pages

26 September 2023

Incipient fault detection in a hydraulic system is a challenge in the condition monitoring community. Existing research mainly monitors abnormal working conditions in hydraulic systems by separately detecting the key working parameter, which often ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,533 Views
23 Pages

Parameter Estimation and Preliminary Fault Diagnosis for Photovoltaic Modules Using a Three-Diode Model

  • Chao-Ming Huang,
  • Shin-Ju Chen,
  • Sung-Pei Yang,
  • Yann-Chang Huang and
  • Pao-Yuan Huang

29 June 2024

Accurate estimation of photovoltaic (PV) power generation can ensure the stability of regional voltage control, provide a smooth PV output voltage and reduce the impact on power systems with many PV units. The internal parameters of solar cells that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,591 Views
21 Pages

One of the current topics of interest in transportation science is the use of intelligent computation and IoT (Internet of Things) technologies. Researchers have proposed many approaches using these concepts, but the most widely used concept in road...

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