Fault classification and diagnostic system for unmanned aerial vehicle electrical networks based on hidden Markov models. Issue 3 (1st September 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Telford, Rory; Galloway, Stuart
• Is Part Of: IET electrical systems in transportation. Volume 5:Issue 3(2015)
• Page Start: 103
• Page End: 111
• Publication Date: 2015-09-01
• Subjects: fault diagnosis -- autonomous aerial vehicles -- aircraft power systems -- hidden Markov models -- power system reliability -- power system faults; unmanned aerial vehicle electrical network -- hidden Markov model -- electric aircraft -- electrical power system -- safe flight -- UAV failure detection -- system reliability enhancement -- UAV EPS fault classification and diagnostic system -- FCD system -- HMM -- EPS health management -- EPS health control -- NASA advanced diagnostic and prognostic testbed -- ADAPT; Electric vehicles -- Periodicals; Electricity in transportation -- Periodicals; 621.3105
• DOI: 10.1049/iet-est.2014.0042
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2042-9738

Abstract

Abstract : In recent years there has been an increase in the number of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications intended for various missions in a variety of environments. The adoption of the more‐electric aircraft has led to a greater emphasis on electrical power systems (EPS) for safe flight through an increased number of critical loads being sourced with electrical power. Despite extensive literature detailing the development of systems to detect UAV failures and enhance overall system reliability, few have focussed directly on the increasingly complex and dynamic EPS. This study outlines the development of a novel UAV EPS fault classification and diagnostic (FCD) system based on hidden Markov models (HMM) that will assist and improve EPS health management and control. The ability of the proposed FCD system to autonomously detect, classify and diagnose the severity of diverse EPS faults is validated with development of the system for NASA's advanced diagnostic and prognostic testbed (ADAPT), a representative UAV EPS system. EPS data from the ADAPT network was used to develop the FCD system and results described within this study show that a high classification and diagnostic accuracy can be achieved using the proposed system.