Keywords: Self-checking adder Carry-select adder Fault localization Self-repairing adder Multiple faults a b s t r a c t In this paper we propose an area-efficient self-repairing adder that can repair multiple faults and identify the particular faulty full adder. Fault detection and recovery has been carried out using self-checking full adders that can diagnose the fault based on internal funct...

Transformer protection is critical issue in power system as the issue lies in the accurate and rapid discrimination of magnetizing inrush current from internal fault current. Artificial neural network has been proposed and has demonstrated the capability of solving the transformer monitoring and fault detection problem using an inexpensive, reliable, and noninvasive procedure. This paper gives ...

For digital circuit/system architectures, the triple modular redundancy (TMR) scheme is widely used to cope with circuit/system faults. The TMR scheme involves duplication of a circuit/system twice and the majority voter, based on Boolean majority logic, ensures that the architecture remains functional even if any copy of circuit/system may become faulty at any time. However, the fundamental as...

Power transformer rupture and fire resulting from an arcing fault inside the tank usually leads to significant security risks and serious economic loss. In order to reveal the essence of tank deformation or explosion, this paper presents a 3-D numerical computational tool to simulate the structural dynamic behavior due to overpressure inside transformer tank. To illustrate the effectiveness of ...

This paper aims to solve the fault tolerant control problem of a wind turbine benchmark. A hierarchical controller with model predictive pre-compensators, a global model predictive controller and a supervisory controller is proposed. In the model predictive pre-compensator, an extended Kalman Filter is designed to estimate the system states and various fault parameters. Based on the estimation,...

Static random-access memories (SRAMs) exhibit faults that are electrical in nature. Functional and electrical testing are performed to diagnose faulty operation. These tests are usually designed from simple fault models that describe the chip interface behavior without a thorough analysis of the chip layout and technology. However, there are certain technology and layout-related defects that ar...

Despite perfect functioning of its internal components, a robot can be unsuccessful in performing its tasks because of unforeseen situations. Mostly these situations arise from the interaction of a robot with its ever-changing environment. In this paper we refer to these unsuccessful operations as external unknown faults. We reason along the most frequent failures in typical scenarios which we ...

Network diagnosis in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a difficult task due to their improvisational nature, invisibility of internal running status, and particularly since the network structure can frequently change due to link failure. To solve this problem, we propose a Mobile Sink (MS) based distributed fault diagnosis algorithm for WSNs. An MS, or mobile fault detector is usually a mobile...