Control reconfiguration in the presence of software failures

Author

Bodson, M. ; Lehoczky, J. ; Rajkumar, R. ; Sha, L. ; Soh, D. ; Smith, M. ; Stephan, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

15-17 Dec 1993

Firstpage

2284

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss a special approach for software fault tolerance in control applications. A full-function, high-performance, but complex control system is complemented by an error-free implementation of a highly reliable control system of lower functionality. When the correctness of the high-performance controller is in doubt, the reliable control system takes over the execution of the task. An innovative feature of the approach is the disparity between the two control systems, which is used to exploit the relative advantages of the simple/reliable vs. complex/high-performance systems. Another innovative feature is the fault detection mechanism, which is based on measures of performance and of safety of the control system. The example of a ball and beam system is used to illustrate the concepts, and experimental results obtained on a laboratory set-up are presented

Keywords

computerised control; fault location; fault tolerant computing; large-scale systems; self-adjusting systems; software reliability; ball-beam system; complex control system; fault detection mechanism; high-performance controller; reliable control system; software failures; software fault tolerance; Aircraft; Application software; Computer errors; Control systems; Error correction; Fault tolerance; Fuzzy logic; Neural networks; Software safety; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 1993., Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1298-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.1993.325604

Filename

325604