New Method for Detecting Failures of Power Converter Module in Control Rod Control System

Cheon, Jong-Min; Kim, Choon-Kyoug; Lee, Jong-Moo; Kwon, Seong-Geun

doi:10.1109/isie.2006.295705

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“…When a drone suffers from motor failure, fast detection of failed motors is essential for follow-up responses. Some excellent work on this field can be found in [8][9][10]. A very recent and novel method of fault diagnosis using thermal imaging is presented in [11].…”

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Analysis and Management of Motor Failures of Hexacopter in Hover

2021

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This research presents an analysis and management strategy for hovering hexacopter with one or more failing motors. Of late, multirotor drones have become particularly popular, and all drones have been increasing in popularity. Unlike a fixed-wing drone, failure of motors in a multirotor craft may cause safety problems. Numerous published articles have proposed solving this problem by redesigning the control law or control gain. This approach, however, is difficult to implement because change of control gain usually involves connecting external devices. This paper proposes to keep the control gain unchanged but reallocate the thrusts. Simulations are conducted on a hexacopter in various hovering modes. Some hovering state problems are investigated for the linearized dynamics but also numerically verified for the original nonlinear dynamics. In case some motors of a hexacopter fail in flight, an allocation matrix is proposed to redistribute required thrusts to functional motors. Seven cases of motor failure are studied. This paper analytically proves that limited controllability for emergency landing is feasible in four scenarios at the linear level, but the other three scenarios are completely uncontrollable. Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the validity of our algorithm. An online video of real flight also confirms our results. This paper potentially helps the design of failure management of rotors and increases the successful rate of emergent landing.

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