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Aircraft failure detection and identification over an extended flight envelope using an artificial immune system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2016

H. Moncayo ,
M. G. Perhinschi  and
J. Davis
J. Davis
Affiliation:
West Virginia University, West Virginia, USA
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Abstract

An integrated artificial immune system-based scheme that can operate over extended areas of the flight envelope is proposed in this paper for the detection and identification of a variety of aircraft sensor, actuator, propulsion, and structural failures/damages. A hierarchical multi-self strategy has been developed in which different self configurations are selected for detection and identification of specific abnormal conditions. Data collected using a motion-based flight simulator were used to define the self for a wide area of the flight envelope and to test and validate the scheme. The aircraft model represents a supersonic fighter, including model-following direct adaptive control laws based on non-linear dynamic inversion and artificial neural network augmentation. The proposed detection scheme achieves low false alarm rates and high detection and identification rates for all the categories of failures considered.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 115 , Issue 1163 , January 2011 , pp. 43 - 55
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2011 

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