Programs constructed using techniques that allow software or operational faults to be tolerated are typically written using an imperative computational model. Here, an alternative is described in which such programs are written using a functional and attribute based model called FTAG (Fault-Tolerant Attribute Grammars). The basic model is introduced first, followed by a description of mechanism...

Fault tolerance is an obligatory feature in safety critical applications (aeronautical, aerospace, medical and military applications, power plants, etc.), where loss of life, environmental disasters, equipment destructions or unplanned downtimes must be avoided. For such applications, a novel bio-inspired motion control system is proposed. All its three components (the switched reluctance machi...

The function of a garbage collector in a computer system is to reclaim storage that is no longer in use. Developing a garbage collector for a distributed system composed of autonomous computers (nodes) connected by a communication network poses a challenging problem: optimising performance whilst achieving fault-tolerance. The paper presents the design and implementation of a reference-count ga...

Implementing a unitary operation using a universal gate set is a fundamental problem in quantum computing. The problem naturally arises when we want to implement some quantum algorithm on a fault tolerant quantum computer. Most fault tolerant protocols allow one to implement only Clifford circuits (those generated by CNOT, Hadamard and Phase gates). To achieve universal quantum computation one ...

In this paper, we investigate the robust fault-tolerant finitetime stabilization problem of switched system with asynchronous switching. The asynchronous switching idea originates from the fact that switching instants of the controllers lag behind or exceed those of subsystems. The attention is focused on designing a robust fault-tolerant asynchronously switched controller that guarantees the f...

In this paper, an on-line fault tolerant approach for networked control systems is proposed. The fault tolerant approach incorporates a fault detection and diagnosis methodology based on on-line identification of an ARX model and on neural nonlinear principal components analysis, as well as on neural nonlinear discriminant analysis. When a fault is correctly diagnosed the supervision system rec...

We address the problem of modifying a hypercube computer by the addition of spare nodes and links to improve its fault tolerance, while maintaining a specified level of performance. The hypercube is modeled by a graph in which nodes represent processors and edges represent communication links. A new graphbased measure of performance degradation is introduced. This characterizes a fault-tolerant...

Abstract:Software that allows software or operational faults to be tolerated are typically written using an imperative computational model. Here, an alternative is described in which such programs are written using a functional and attribute based model called FTAG (Fault-Tolerant Attribute Grammars). Some example to illustrate these techniques and a software architecture for implementing FTAG ...

This paper presents the integrated fault-tolerant control scheme for nonlinear system with multi-fault. After the unknown faults are estimated online by using the fuzzy credit assignment CMAC (FCACMAC), the effective control law reconfiguration strategy based on the sliding mode control technique is used to compensate for the effect of multifault. For multiple faults scenarios and three-tank sy...

Fault-tolerant control methods have been extensively researched over the last 10 years in the context of chemical process control applications, and provide a natural framework for integrating process monitoring and control aspects in a way that not only fault detection and isolation but also control system reconfiguration is achieved in the event of a process or actuator fault. But almost all t...