This paper investigates the joint effect of the interconnected (n,k)-star network topology and Multi-Agent automated control on restoration and reconfiguration of power systems. With the increasing trend in development in Multi-Agent control technologies applied to power system reconfiguration in presence of faulty components or nodes. Fault tolerance is becoming an important challenge in the d...

This paper presents a rapid prototyping technique that focuses on transition management in hybrid systems. In particular, it integrates hybrid modeling and simulation (for specifying and validating transition strategies) with a generic transition management pattern built on a RealTime CORBA-based platform for reconfigurable control systems. Code generation is performed from the hybrid models to...

Reconfigurable Abstract Reconfigurable control systems are promising alternatives to efpciently control complex time-variant andlor non-linear systems, such as vehicles, gas turbines, etc., which might require a certain level of faultoperational behavior, as well. Reconfigurable control systems are designed to be able to change the controller at run-time to react to failures, compensate the tim...

Reconfigurable control systems are promising alternatives to efficiently control complex time-variant and/or non-linear systems, such as vehicles, gas turbines, etc., which might require a certain level of faultoperational behavior, as well. Reconfigurable control systems are designed to be able to change the controller at run-time to react to failures, compensate the time-variant and/or nonlin...

This work is concerned with a new type of realtime reconfigurable control systems that is based on the use of a multi-agent system. To this end, two stages have been examined in the context of decision making; the fault detection and identification (FDI) stage and the reconfiguration stage (RC). The agent based FDI detects that a fault has occurred. It then further diagnoses the situation. The ...

This short paper deals with the transition performance improvement of a sensor faulttolerant controller devoted to automotive applications. Indeed, improvements are brought over a previously developed technique that exhibit abrupt changes in the torque if a sensor fault is detected and after a transition from a control technique to another one [1]. The Fault-Tolerant Control (FTC) system firstl...

This paper deals with the control reconfiguration problem of partial actuator failure in a Three-Tank Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) system. In order to tolerate known actuator failure, a reconfiguration in control parameter/structure is made through output/state feedback. A new Proportional-Integral (PI) Reconfigurable Controller (RC) design is proposed for servo tracking problem using Singul...

In recent years, satellite communication has gained increased prominence and driving factors are the reliability, new design techniques and reduced cost. The onboard control system components of the satellite are subjected to high temperature, shock and vibration both during initial transport and launch, and also during periodical orbital corrections. These effects can introduce faults in the c...

In distribution systems, in order to diminish power losses and keep voltage profiles within acceptable limits, network reconfiguration and capacitor placement are commonly used. In this paper, the Hybrid Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm (HSFLA) is used to optimize balanced and unbalanced radial distribution systems by means of a network reconfiguration and capacitor placement. High accuracy and ...

Routing performance of optical interconnection networks is limited by both switch complexity and network connectivity. One way to overcome these limitations is to allocate the network bandwidth in a time-division multiplexed (TDM) fashion. With this technique, an appropriate subset of input-to-output connections can be established during a time slot and all possible connections can be establish...