Power efficiency estimation based health monitoring and fault detection of modular and reconfigurable robot

Author(s):  
Jing Yuan ◽  
Guangjun Liu ◽  
Bin Wu
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Yaun

Power efficiency degradation of machines often provides intrinsic indication of problems associated with their operation conditions. Inspired by this observation, in this thesis work, a simple yet effective power efficiency estimation base health monitoring and fault detection technique is proposed for modular and reconfigurable robot with joint torque sensor. The design of the Ryerson modular and reconfigurable robot system is first introduced, which aims to achieve modularity and compactness of the robot modules. Critical components, such as the joint motor, motor driver, harmonic drive, sensors, and joint brake, have been selected according to the requirement. Power efficiency coefficients of each joint module are obtained using sensor measurements and used directly for health monitoring and fault detection. The proposed method has been experimentally tested on the developed modular and reconfigurable robot with joint torque sensing and a distributed control system. Experimental results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Yaun

Power efficiency degradation of machines often provides intrinsic indication of problems associated with their operation conditions. Inspired by this observation, in this thesis work, a simple yet effective power efficiency estimation base health monitoring and fault detection technique is proposed for modular and reconfigurable robot with joint torque sensor. The design of the Ryerson modular and reconfigurable robot system is first introduced, which aims to achieve modularity and compactness of the robot modules. Critical components, such as the joint motor, motor driver, harmonic drive, sensors, and joint brake, have been selected according to the requirement. Power efficiency coefficients of each joint module are obtained using sensor measurements and used directly for health monitoring and fault detection. The proposed method has been experimentally tested on the developed modular and reconfigurable robot with joint torque sensing and a distributed control system. Experimental results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.


2012 ◽  
Vol 433-440 ◽  
pp. 5573-5578
Author(s):  
Tie Liu Wang ◽  
Si Lei Shen ◽  
Jun Jie Wang

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is used for such tasks as surveillance, widespread environmental sampling, security, and health monitoring widely. In this paper, a WSNs topology is proposed for lightning monitoring of distribution lines, which decides the number of nodes, routing protocol and power efficiency. The WSNs is deployed along the distribution line with nodes mounted on tall towers, which is used to monitor the lightning activities and accomplish fault diagnosis. At last, a monitoring system based on WSN is fabricated.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleh Ahmad Ali

The study in this thesis addresses the problem of opening a door with a modular and reconfigurable robot (MRR) mounted on a wheeled mobile robot platform. The foremost issue with door opening problems is the prevention of occurrence of large internal forces that arise due to position errors or imprecise modeling of the robot or its environment, i.e. the door parameters, specifically. Unlike previous methods that relied on compliance control, making the control design rather complicated, this thesis presents a new concept that utilizes the multiple working modes of the MRR modules. The control design is significantly simplified by switching selected joints of the MRR to work in passive mode during door opening operation. As a result, the occurrence of large internal forces is prevented. Different control schemes are used for control of the joint modules in different working modes. For passive joint modules, a feedforward torque control approach is used to compensate the joint friction to ensure passive motion. For the active joint modules, a distributed control method, based on torque sensing, is used to facilitate the control of joint modules working under this mode. To enable autonomous door opening, an online door parameter estimation algorithm is proposed on the basis of the least squares method; and a path planning algorithm is developed on the basis of Hermite cubic spline functions, with consideration of motion constraints of the mobile MRR. The theory is validated using simulations and experimental results, as presented herein. A distributed fault detection scheme for MRR robots with joint torque sensing is also proposed in this thesis. The proposed scheme relies on filtering the joint torque command and comparing it with a filtered torque estimate that is derived from the nonlinear dynamic model of MRR with joint torque sensing. Common joint actuator faults are considered with fault detection being performed independently for each joint module. The proposed fault detection scheme for each module does not require motion states of any other module, making it an ideal modular approach for fault detection of modular robots. Experimental results have attested the effectiveness of the proposed fault detection scheme.


Author(s):  
Maksym Zaliskyi ◽  
Oleksandr Solomentsev ◽  
Ivan Yashanov

In this chapter, the authors present the questions of aviation radioelectronic equipment operation. The structure of operation system is considered based on processes approach with adaptable control principles usage. Operation system contains processes of diagnostics and health monitoring. The authors consider the direct problem of efficiency estimation for diagnostics process, and main attention is paid to probability density function calculation for diagnostics duration. Simulation results were used for adequacy testing of these calculations. The authors also take into account the possibility of first and second kind errors presence. The inverse problem for diagnostics is defined and solved for mathematical expectation of repair time. In general case, the inverse problem can be solved for seven options of optimization.


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