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1. Full Text Method for Detecting the Head Lamp Switch Failure or Wiring Harness Failure and Controlling the Exterior and Interior Lights Using Intelligent Light Sensor
by Gupta, Sidharth, author
SAE technical paper series, Volume 2011-01-0117.
This paper will present the method for activation of exterior and interior lighting system during the vehicle level fault conditions id est light switch... 
Sensors and Actuators | Exterior lighting
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2. Full Text Failure Detection Algorithms Applied to Control System Design for Improved Diagnostics and Reliability
by Liubakka, Michael, author
SAE technical paper series, Volume 880726.
This paper presents the application of detection filters to the diagnosis of sensor and actuator failures in automotive control systems. The detection filter... 
Electronic control systems | Sensors and actuators | Maintainability and supportability | Failure modes and effects analysis
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3. Full Text The Development of a Temperature Alarm Device for Failure Prevention of the Automobile Hydraulic Brake System
by Lee, Shuo-Jen, author
SAE technical paper series, Volume 1999-01-0474
The pursuit of safer and more reliable car is the trend of modern automobile engineering. The major protection against an automobile accident is the brake... 
Sensors and Actuators | Braking systems | Safety | Failure modes and effects analysis
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4. Full Text Reliability Analysis of Data with No Failure from Fleet and Proving Ground Endurance Tests
by Wang, C. Julius, author
SAE technical paper series, Volume 920773.
The reliability of an electronic sensor in the automotive applications is assessed using data from Fleet Test and proving ground Vehicle Endurance test. These... 
Fleets | Statistical analysis | Sensors and Actuators | Manufacturing
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5. Full Text Detection of Catalyst Failure On-Vehicle Using the Dual Oxygen Sensor Method
by Koupal, John W., author
SAE technical paper series, Volume 910561.
On-vehicle proof-of-concept testing was conducted to evaluate the ability of the dual oxygen sensor catalyst evaluation method to identify serious losses in... 
Oxygen | Sensors and actuators | Emissions control | Failure modes and effects analysis | Emissions
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6. Full Text Predictive Monitoring and Failure Prevention of Vehicle Electronic Components and Sensor Systems
by Liao, Haitao, author
SAE technical paper series, Volume 2006-01-0373.
Vehicle electronics and sensor systems have become indispensable parts in providing safety, comfort, personal communication mobility and many other advanced... 
Electronic equipment | Electronic control systems | Sensors and actuators | Maintainability and supportability
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7. Full Text Performance Evaluation of an Integrated Retrofit Failure Detection, Identification and Reconfiguration (FDIR) System Using High-Fidelity and Piloted Simulations
by Bošković, Jovan D., author
SAE technical paper series, Volume 2004-01-3115.
In this paper the results obtained under a NASA Dryden Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) project are described. At Scientific Systems Company,... 
Sensors and actuators | Aircraft operations | Failure modes and effects analysis
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8. Full Text Real Time Detection Filters for Onboard Diagnosis of Incipient Failures
by Rizzoni, Giorgio, author
SAE technical paper series, Volume 890763.
This paper presents the real time implementation of detection filters for the diagnosis of incipient failures in electronically controlled internal combustion... 
Electronic control systems | Systems engineering | Sensors and actuators | Failure modes and effects analysis
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9. Full Text Fuzzy Adaptive Actuator Failure Compensation Control of Uncertain Stochastic Nonlinear Systems With Unmodeled Dynamics
by Tong, Shaocheng and Wang, Tong and Li, Yongming
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, ISSN 1063-6706, 06/2014, Volume 22, Issue 3, pp. 563 - 574
This paper investigates fuzzy adaptive actuator failure compensation control for a class of uncertain stochastic nonlinear systems in strict-feedback form.... 
Linear systems | Actuators | Adaptive systems | Backstepping | fuzzy adaptive backstepping control | state observer | Stochastic processes | fault-tolerant control (FTC) | Actuator faults | Nonlinear dynamical systems | stochastic nonlinear systems | NEURAL-CONTROL | OUTPUT-FEEDBACK CONTROL | DESIGN | VEHICLE | STABILIZATION | COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | DISCRETE-TIME-SYSTEMS | ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC | TRACKING CONTROL | FAULT-TOLERANT CONTROL | DELAY | Fuzzy logic | Nonlinear systems | Nonlinear dynamics | Control systems | Fuzzy set theory | Actuator failure | Fuzzy | Dynamical systems | Adaptive control systems
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10. Full Text Adaptive actuator failure compensation control of uncertain nonlinear systems with guaranteed transient performance
by Wang, Wei and Wen, Changyun
Automatica, ISSN 0005-1098, 2010, Volume 46, Issue 12, pp. 2082 - 2091
In order to accommodate actuator failures which are uncertain in time, pattern and value, we propose two adaptive backstepping control schemes for parametric... 
Backstepping | Prescribed performance bound | Adaptive control | Transient performance | Actuator failure compensation | DESIGN | FLIGHT CONTROL | BACKSTEPPING CONTROL | ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC | TRACKING CONTROL | SCHEME | FAULT-TOLERANT CONTROL | OUTPUT-FEEDBACK | STATE-FEEDBACK | ACCOMMODATION | AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS | Actuators | Control systems | Control equipment industry | Compensation management | Design engineering | Asymptotic properties | Tracking errors | Actuator failure | Dynamical systems | Adaptive control systems
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11. Full Text Robust Detection of Oscillatory and Transient Aircraft Actuation System Failures Using Analytical Redundancy
by Sachs, Helge, author
SAE technical paper series, Volume 2009-01-3175.
System failures represent critical design cases for the development of an actuation control system and its integration in the surrounding structures of any new... 
Computer simulation | Sensors and actuators | Simulation and modeling | Hardware-in-the-loop | Avionics | Failure modes and effects analysis
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12. Full Text Large-scale failure modes of dielectric elastomer actuators
by Plante, Jean-Sébastien and Dubowsky, Steven
International Journal of Solids and Structures, ISSN 0020-7683, 2006, Volume 43, Issue 25, pp. 7727 - 7751
Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) show promise for robotic and mechatronic applications. However, to date, these actuators have experienced high rates of... 
Model | Fundamental | Dielectric | Performance | Failure | Elastomer | POLYMER DIELECTRICS | ELECTROSTRICTION | elastomer | fundamental | ROBOTS | DEFORMATION | ELASTICITY | DIAPHRAGM | MECHANICS | performance | failure | PROSTHETIC BLOOD PUMP | SOLIDS | TIME-DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR | model | dielectric | Actuators | Usage | Control equipment industry | Mechanical engineering | Analysis | Elastomers
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13. Full Text Adaptive Failure Compensation Control for Uncertain Systems With Stochastic Actuator Failures
by Huijin Fan and Bing Liu and Yindong Shen and Wei Wang
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, ISSN 0018-9286, 03/2014, Volume 59, Issue 3, pp. 808 - 814
In this technical note, an adaptive failure compensation problem has been studied for a class of nonlinear uncertain systems subject to stochastic actuator... 
Actuators | Adaptive systems | Stochastic processes | backstepping | Generators | failure compensation | Closed loop systems | Nonlinear systems | Adaptive control | stochastic actuator failures | Markovian variables | NETWORKED CONTROL-SYSTEMS | DESIGN | IDENTIFICATION | ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC | FAULT-TOLERANT CONTROL | NONLINEAR-SYSTEMS | FEEDBACK | AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS | Linear systems | Usage | Stochastic analysis | Feedback control systems | Innovations | Markov processes | Compensation | Strategy | Actuator failure | Stochasticity | Failure | Adaptive control systems
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14. Full Text Adaptive Actuator Failure Compensation for a Class of Nonlinear Systems With Unknown Control Direction
by Chenliang Wang and Changyun Wen and Yan Lin
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, ISSN 0018-9286, 01/2017, Volume 62, Issue 1, pp. 385 - 392
In this note, a novel adaptive compensation control scheme is proposed for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown control direction and a possibly infinite... 
Actuators | Estimation | unknown control direction | Nonlinear systems | Adaptive control | Actuator failures | Lyapunov methods | nonlinear systems | adaptive control | OUTPUT-FEEDBACK | CONTROL SCHEME | AIRCRAFT CONTROL APPLICATION | AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS | ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC | Tracking errors | Actuator failure | Closed loops
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15. Full Text Thermomechanical failure response of notched NiTi coupons
by Iliopoulos, A.P and Steuben, J.C and Kirk, T and Baxevanis, T and Michopoulos, J.G and Lagoudas, D.C
International Journal of Solids and Structures, ISSN 0020-7683, 10/2017, Volume 125, pp. 265 - 275
Emerging applications of shape memory alloys (SMAs) functioning as actuators in areas such as the aeronautic and automotive industries, require better... 
Mechanical Strength | Cyclic loading | Full field measurement | Shape memory alloys | Failure | Strain | Crack | TRANSFORMATION | FRACTURE-TOUGHNESS | FATIGUE | SHAPE-MEMORY ALLOYS | PREDICTION | MECHANICS | EVOLUTION | CRACK-GROWTH | TIP | ACTUATORS | Actuators | Shape-memory alloys | Mechanical engineering | Aerospace engineering
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16. Full Text Adaptive actuator failure compensation for nonlinear MIMO systems with an aircraft control application
by Tang, Xidong and Tao, Gang and Joshi, Suresh M
Automatica, ISSN 0005-1098, 2007, Volume 43, Issue 11, pp. 1869 - 1883
A direct adaptive approach is developed for control of a class of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear systems in the presence of uncertain failures of... 
Multivariable systems | Backstepping | Actuator failure | Adaptive control | Nonlinear control | nonlinear control | multivariable systems | RECONFIGURABLE FLIGHT CONTROL | actuator failure | FAULT-DIAGNOSIS | adaptive control | backstepping | ALGORITHMS | AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS | ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC
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17. Full Text Adaptive compensation for infinite number of actuator failures or faults
by Wang, Wei and Wen, Changyun
Automatica, ISSN 0005-1098, 2011, Volume 47, Issue 10, pp. 2197 - 2210
It is both theoretically and practically important to investigate the problem of accommodating infinite number of actuator failures or faults in controlling... 
Backstepping | Modular design | Actuator failure/fault compensation | Adaptive control | Fault tolerant control | LINEAR-SYSTEMS | DESIGN | RECONFIGURABLE FLIGHT CONTROL | TIME-VARYING SYSTEMS | AIRCRAFT CONTROL APPLICATION | ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC | NONLINEAR-SYSTEMS | TOLERANT CONTROL | OUTPUT-FEEDBACK | STATE-FEEDBACK | ACCOMMODATION | AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS | Actuators | Control equipment industry | Analysis | Controllers | Faults | Asymptotic properties | Compensation | Control systems | Actuator failure | Failure | Adaptive control systems
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18. Full Text Robust Adaptive Failure Compensation of Hysteretic Actuators for a Class of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems
by Jianping Cai and Changyun Wen and Hongye Su and Zhitao Liu
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, ISSN 0018-9286, 09/2013, Volume 58, Issue 9, pp. 2388 - 2394
Hysteresis exists in a wide range of physical actuators. Furthermore, such actuators may be subject to failures or faults which are often uncertain in time,... 
Actuators | Adaptation models | Backstepping | Adaptive systems | adaptive control | Steady-state | Actuator failure | nonlinear system | Hysteresis | backstepping | hysteresis | UNKNOWN BACKLASH | BACKLASH-LIKE HYSTERESIS | OUTPUT-FEEDBACK | AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS | ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC | Robust statistics | Usage | Analysis | Feedback control systems | Innovations | Design and construction | Mathematical optimization
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19. Full Text Adaptive Event-Triggered Output Feedback Fuzzy Control for Nonlinear Networked Systems With Packet Dropouts and Actuator Failure
by Zhang, Zhenxing and Liang, Hongjing and Wu, Chengwei and Ahn, Choon Ki
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, ISSN 1063-6706, 09/2019, Volume 27, Issue 9, pp. 1793 - 1806
This paper studies the problem of adaptive event-triggered dynamic output feedback fuzzy control for nonlinear networked control systems. Two crucial factors,... 
Actuators | Adaptation models | Fuzzy control | Symmetric matrices | Adaptive systems | fuzzy dynamic output feedback control | Delays | Actuator failure | adaptive event-triggered mechanism | networked control systems (NCSs) | packet dropouts | Output feedback | actuator failure | Adaptive event-triggered mechanism | H-INFINITY CONTROL | TRACKING CONTROL | DISCRETE-TIME SYSTEM | FILTER DESIGN | STABILIZATION | COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC
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20. Adaptive control of systems with actuator failures
2004, ISBN 9781852337889, xvi· 299
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