access icon openaccess Fault classification and diagnostic system for unmanned aerial vehicle electrical networks based on hidden Markov models

This is an open access article published by the IET under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Received 30/05/2014, Accepted 24/10/2014, Published 08/01/2015

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications intended for various missions in a variety of environments. The adoption of the more-electric aircraft has led to a greater emphasis on electrical power systems (EPS) for safe flight through an increased number of critical loads being sourced with electrical power. Despite extensive literature detailing the development of systems to detect UAV failures and enhance overall system reliability, few have focussed directly on the increasingly complex and dynamic EPS. This study outlines the development of a novel UAV EPS fault classification and diagnostic (FCD) system based on hidden Markov models (HMM) that will assist and improve EPS health management and control. The ability of the proposed FCD system to autonomously detect, classify and diagnose the severity of diverse EPS faults is validated with development of the system for NASA's advanced diagnostic and prognostic testbed (ADAPT), a representative UAV EPS system. EPS data from the ADAPT network was used to develop the FCD system and results described within this study show that a high classification and diagnostic accuracy can be achieved using the proposed system.

Inspec keywords: autonomous aerial vehicles; fault diagnosis; power system faults; hidden Markov models; aircraft power systems; power system reliability

Other keywords: EPS health control; HMM; unmanned aerial vehicle electrical network; ADAPT; EPS health management; NASA advanced diagnostic and prognostic testbed; safe flight; electrical power system; FCD system; UAV failure detection; electric aircraft; UAV EPS fault classification and diagnostic system; system reliability enhancement; hidden Markov model

Subjects: Reliability; Markov processes; Aerospace power systems

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