Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a standardised technique used by engineers to explore possible failure states of safety-critical systems. Since the FTA is generally practised informally and thus, it cannot be guaranteed that it is applied correctly, several formal approaches have been introduced in the past (e.g. [STR02]) for allowing engineers to verify that they built a fault tree considering th...

This paper addresses the application of fault trees to the analysis of robot manipulator reliability and fault tolerance. Although a common and useful tool in other applications, fault trees have only recently been applied to robots. In addition, most of the fault tree analyses in robotics have focused on qualitative, rather than quantitative, analysis. Robotic manipulators present some special...

This paper presents a new idea for fault detection and isolation (FDI) technique which is applied to industrial system. This technique is based on Neural Networks fault-free and Faulty behaviours Models (NNFMs). NNFMs are used for residual generation, while decision tree architecture is used for residual evaluation. The decision tree is realized with data collected from the NNFM’s outputs and i...

Fault-tree analysis is applied to technological systems to determine the probability of system’s failure modes with unacceptable consequences, called “critical states”. As many Fault-trees as the number of system’s critical states are constructed and analysed; when their probabilities are deemed not acceptable, the Importance and Sensitivity Analysis (ISA) is applied to improve the system safet...

Fault discovery in the complex systems consist of model based reasoning, fault tree analysis, rule based inference methods, and other approaches. Model based reasoning builds models for the systems either by mathematic formulations or by results of experiments. Fault Tree Analysis shows the possible causes of a system malfunction by enumerating the suspect components and their respective failur...

Self-stabilization is a versatile approach to fault-tolerance since it permits a distributed system to recover from any transient fault that arbitrarily corrupts the contents of all memories in the system. Byzantine tolerance is an attractive feature of distributed systems that permits to cope with arbitrary malicious behaviors. Combining these two properties proved difficult: it is impossible ...

Risk and safety assessments performed on potentially hazardous industrial systems commonly utilise Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) to forecast the probability of system failure. The type of logic for the top event is usually limited to AND and OR gates which leads to a coherent fault tree structure. In non-coherent fault trees components’ working states as well as components’ failures contribute to t...

SUMMARY Modelling of a high-impedance arcing fault due to a leaning tree in medium voltage (MV) networks was experimentally verified and the network transients due to this fault were also investigated. Even though the tree had a very high resistance value, the initial transients were periodically caused by the arc reignitions after each zero-crossing. In this paper, these features are extracted...

This paper has made a qualitative and quantitative analysis by establishing the tunnel fault tree and giving the minimal cut sets of the faults in tunnel, and tested the data in tunnel combined with artificial neural network. The fault detection mechanism in this article has been simulated by MatLab and processed a lot of the actual data through the tunnel operating history. Experimental result...