TY - GEN
T1 - Distributed Control-Based Fault-tolerant Control Method for AAV's DEP System
AU - Zhang, Ruiheng
AU - Qu, Tao
AU - Liang, Zihao
AU - Sun, Tianjian
AU - Du, Yuhua
AU - Fan, Aili
AU - Huangfu, Yigeng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 IEEE.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Distributed electric propulsion (DEP) has been proven to be the next-generation propulsion technology for full-electric aircraft and all-electric aircraft. To take advantage of the redundancy of the DEP system, the distributed control method and its related performance have been extensively studied. However, due to the characteristics of the distributed structure, faults of a single agent could propagate through the communication links, making the whole system fail. This paper proposes a fault-tolerant control method to stabilize the DEP system when an inverter single-phase open-circuit fault occurs. The proposed method adopts a distributed structure and could effectively depress the fluctuation of the rotation speed of each thruster without additional requirements for the increase in hardware amount and computational performance. Controller-hardware-in-the-loop (C-HIL) experiments have been conducted, and the corresponding results validate the effectiveness of the proposed control method.
AB - Distributed electric propulsion (DEP) has been proven to be the next-generation propulsion technology for full-electric aircraft and all-electric aircraft. To take advantage of the redundancy of the DEP system, the distributed control method and its related performance have been extensively studied. However, due to the characteristics of the distributed structure, faults of a single agent could propagate through the communication links, making the whole system fail. This paper proposes a fault-tolerant control method to stabilize the DEP system when an inverter single-phase open-circuit fault occurs. The proposed method adopts a distributed structure and could effectively depress the fluctuation of the rotation speed of each thruster without additional requirements for the increase in hardware amount and computational performance. Controller-hardware-in-the-loop (C-HIL) experiments have been conducted, and the corresponding results validate the effectiveness of the proposed control method.
KW - autonomous aerial vehicle
KW - distributed electric propulsion
KW - fault-tolerant control
KW - single-phase open-circuit fault
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105024661659
U2 - 10.1109/IECON58223.2025.11221368
DO - 10.1109/IECON58223.2025.11221368
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:105024661659
T3 - IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)
BT - IECON 2025 - 51st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 51st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2025
Y2 - 14 October 2025 through 17 October 2025
ER -