Safety issues and the dependence of numerous systems on electronics are rapidly increasing the concern over fault tolerance. As an example, an intelligent vehicle with electronically controlled x-by-wire systems composed of dynamically configurable electronic elements instead of rigid mechanical components must be fault tolerant because a devastating failure could occur without warning. In particular, a safety-related malfunction of the brakes, throttle, or steering system could lead to serious injury or death and damage the manufacturer's reputation. If there is a warning it may not be as devastating as one could prevent it or mitigate it. Therefore, fault tolerance is the primary focus of x-by-wire systems development. To address this concern, this paper presents a fuzzy predictive redundancy system that can remove most erroneous faults with a fault detection algorithm. This paper also introduces a prototype of the system using an embedded microcontroller unit. The experimental results show that fuzzy predictive redundancy can be an appropriate choice for fault tolerance in the x-by-wire systems such as steer-by-wire system or brake-by-wire system of intelligent vehicle.
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