Ship Propulsion System as a Benchmark for Fault-Tolerant Control

Fault-tolerant control combines fault detection and isolation techniques with supervisory control to achieve autonomous accommodation of faults before they develop into failures. While fault detection and isolation (FDI) methods have matured during the past decade the extension to fault-tolerant control is a fairly new area. The paper presents a ship propulsion system as a benchmark that should be useful as a platform for development of new ideas and comparison of methods. The benchmark has two main elements. One is development of efficient FDI algorithms, the other is analysis and implementation of autonomous fault accommodation. A benchmark kit can be obtained from the authors.