35166 - Diagnosis And Control M

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Docente: Andrea Tilli
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ING-INF/04
  • Language: English

Learning outcomes

The course aims to give a systematic overview of the main available methodologies and of the technical norms that should be used to rationally overcome problems due to faults and malfunctioning affecting modern automatic systems. Fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control methodologies as well as the functional safety tools, norms and standards that regulate safety-critical systems design are topics of the course. At the end of the course students are able to design algorithms for fault detection, to design fault tolerant schemes, and have an overview of safety norms in industrial settings.

Course contents

Introduction to Dependability, RAMS and Diagnosis;

Reliability and Availability;

- Main definitions and concepts;

- Basics of non-state space methods;

- Basics of state space methods;

Functional Safety;

- Safety critical systems;

- The IEC61508 standard;

- Safety life cycle;

- Fault Analysis techniques (HAZOP, FMEA, FTA)

- Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA);

- SIL levels;

- The ALARP philosophy;

Model Based Fault Detection;

- Basics on Fault Detection (FD);

- Observer based FD;

- Unknown Input Observers (UIO);

- Kalman Filters;

- Parity Space FD;

- Least Squares FD;

- Statistical residual evaluation (chi-square test, sequential probability ratio test);

- Adaptive thresholds;

- Fault Isolation architectures;

Fault Tolerance;

- Fault Tolerance by means of redundancy;

- Fault Tolerant control;


Contents are under review

Readings/Bibliography

Material provided by the teacher is available on AMS-Campus (Teaching Material)
(copies of the slides, examples of exam questions).
In order to download such material, students are expected to register in the following distribution list:
andrea.tilli.Diag-Ctrl_2014-15
The password of such list will be given by the instructor in the first class of the course. Students not attending such class are recommended to ask for the password to classmates or by an email to the instructor, reporting name, surname, university code and adding the tag [DC-pwd] in the subject.
Students are recommended to register in the list as soon as possible in order to download the material and to receive the emails about the course sent by the instructor to the list members.
List subscribers are not automatically removed, once they have passed the exam. They can remove themselves manually, using the same webpage they used to register in the list.

Remark: for some of the course topics, slides give just an overview and significant additional parts will be presented at the blackboard. For such parts, the students are expected to take their own notes or to ask classmates for notes, whether they cannot attend some lessons.

 

Books:

Reliability Engineering
[1] A. Birolini, Reliability Engineering: Theory and Practice, Springer, ISBN 9783642149528, 2010.

Fault Analysis
[2] J.D. Andrews, T.R. Moss, Reliability and Risk Assessment, Professional Engineering Publications, ISBN 1860582907, 2002.

Functional Safety
[3] D.J. Smith, K.G.L. Simpson, Safety Critical Systems Handbook: a straightforward guide to functional safety, IEC 61508 (2010 edition) and related standards, including process IEC 61511 and machinery IEC 62061 and ISO 13849, Elsevier Science, ISBN 9780080967820, 2010.

Model Based FD
[4] R.J. Patton, P.M. Frank, R.N. Clark, Issues of Fault Diagnosis for Dynamic Systems, Springer, ISBN 3540199683, 2000.
[5] J. Chen, R.J. Patton, Robust Model-Based Fault Diagnosis for Dynamic Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 0792382595, 1999.

Fault Tolerance
[6] M. Blanke, M. Kinnaert, J. Lunze, Diagnosis and Fault-tolerant Control, Springer, ISBN 3540010564, 2003.
[7] R. Isermann, Fault-Diagnosis Systems: An Introduction from Fault Detection to Fault Tolerance, Springer, ISBN 3540241124, 2006.


Teaching methods

Traditional classes, supported by PC presentations (copy of the slides are available on AMS-Campus).
Some parts of the course are presented only by using the blackboard (for such parts, students are recommended to take their own notes or to ask for notes to classmates, attending classes).

Lectures in collaboration with companies and academic institutions

Assessment methods

Final written exam including theoretical questions and simple exercises.

Detailed rules concerning exam characteristics (including how to book it), marks and registration procedure are given in a pdf file in the Teaching Material on AMS-Campus. Such file can be downloaded by any UniBO student, even without subscribing the above mentioned distribution list.

 

Teaching tools

PC presentations, blackboard

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Tilli