Electro-hydrostatic actuator (EHA), as an emerging power-by-wire (PBW) actuation mechanism with high energy efficiency and fast responsiveness, has been widely used in modern flight control systems. As a pivotal component, the fault diagnosis of EHA is necessary to ensure the reliability of the aircraft. Although researchers have proposed many effective fault diagnosis techniques at present, most of them can only deal with single-factor faults effectively. Recent studies on multi-state reliability and competing failure show that complicated systems such as EHA are more prone to multi-factor failures than single-factor failures. Therefore, an improved EKF based on excitation equivalent conversion is proposed in this paper to achieve the multi-factor fault diagnosis of EHA. First, the existing fault diagnosis methods for EHA and their limitations in multi-factor fault diagnosis are discussed. Then, multi-parameters estimation and observability, the key issues to achieve multi-factor fault diagnosis, are analyzed. Based on the structural characteristics and observability analysis of the second-order system, excitation equivalent conversion is introduced to establish additional available equation about the unknown state parameters to realize the multi-parameter estimation when system is unobservable. Finally, simulation and prototype test experiments have been performed, and the results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method, which outperforms that of the traditional single-factor failure analysis methods by comparison.
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