A Robust State Estimation Method for Unknown, Time-Varying and Featureless Aircraft Sensor Failures

Fault-tolerant state estimation is necessary for analytical redundancy in aviation safety, but complicated fault conditions pose a major challenge to reliable estimations. In this paper, we propose a new state-estimation method based on an intermittent-measurement Kalman filter, a maximum-likelihood...

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Main Authors: Hongbo Wang, Dong Liu, Tianyu Chen, Xiansheng Qin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9123369/
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spelling doaj-66778ed0d1844d8c95c59433053d9e6c2021-03-30T02:29:59ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-01811812511813410.1109/ACCESS.2020.30044569123369A Robust State Estimation Method for Unknown, Time-Varying and Featureless Aircraft Sensor FailuresHongbo Wang0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7276-2547Dong Liu1Tianyu Chen2Xiansheng Qin3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8783-243XSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, ChinaFirst Aircraft Institute, Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Xi’an, ChinaSchool of Electronic Engineering, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi’an, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, ChinaFault-tolerant state estimation is necessary for analytical redundancy in aviation safety, but complicated fault conditions pose a major challenge to reliable estimations. In this paper, we propose a new state-estimation method based on an intermittent-measurement Kalman filter, a maximum-likelihood estimation rule, and the Gaussian mixture reduction. This method is robust to time-varying and featureless faults, and requires no past history of innovation errors to perform fault detection and isolation, leading to the easy implementation and improved accuracy under severe sensor-failure conditions. With an example application of monitoring the rotation speeds of a two-spool jet engine in simulations, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9123369/State estimationintermittent measurementsfault detectionKalman filterjet engine
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author Hongbo Wang
Dong Liu
Tianyu Chen
Xiansheng Qin
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Dong Liu
Tianyu Chen
Xiansheng Qin
A Robust State Estimation Method for Unknown, Time-Varying and Featureless Aircraft Sensor Failures
IEEE Access
State estimation
intermittent measurements
fault detection
Kalman filter
jet engine
author_facet Hongbo Wang
Dong Liu
Tianyu Chen
Xiansheng Qin
author_sort Hongbo Wang
title A Robust State Estimation Method for Unknown, Time-Varying and Featureless Aircraft Sensor Failures
title_short A Robust State Estimation Method for Unknown, Time-Varying and Featureless Aircraft Sensor Failures
title_full A Robust State Estimation Method for Unknown, Time-Varying and Featureless Aircraft Sensor Failures
title_fullStr A Robust State Estimation Method for Unknown, Time-Varying and Featureless Aircraft Sensor Failures
title_full_unstemmed A Robust State Estimation Method for Unknown, Time-Varying and Featureless Aircraft Sensor Failures
title_sort robust state estimation method for unknown, time-varying and featureless aircraft sensor failures
publisher IEEE
series IEEE Access
issn 2169-3536
publishDate 2020-01-01
description Fault-tolerant state estimation is necessary for analytical redundancy in aviation safety, but complicated fault conditions pose a major challenge to reliable estimations. In this paper, we propose a new state-estimation method based on an intermittent-measurement Kalman filter, a maximum-likelihood estimation rule, and the Gaussian mixture reduction. This method is robust to time-varying and featureless faults, and requires no past history of innovation errors to perform fault detection and isolation, leading to the easy implementation and improved accuracy under severe sensor-failure conditions. With an example application of monitoring the rotation speeds of a two-spool jet engine in simulations, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified.
topic State estimation
intermittent measurements
fault detection
Kalman filter
jet engine
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9123369/
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