Publication Date:
2019-08-15
Description:
When building smaller, less expensive spacecraft, there is a need for intelligent fault tolerance vs. increased hardware redundancy. If fault tolerance can be achieved using existing navigation sensors, cost and vehicle complexity can be reduced. A maximum likelihood-based approach to thruster fault detection and identification (FDI) for spacecraft is developed here and applied in simulation to the X-38 space vehicle. The system uses only gyro signals to detect and identify hard, abrupt, single and multiple jet on- and off-failures. Faults are detected within one second and identified within one to five accords,
Keywords:
Spacecraft Propulsion and Power
Type:
2002 American Control Conference; May 08, 2002 - May 10, 2002; Anchorage, AL; United States
Format:
application/pdf