Integrated Diagnostic/Prognostic Experimental Setup for Capacitor Degradation and Health Monitoring

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 11 years, 11 months ago

Shared By: Miryam Strautkalns

This paper proposes the experiments and setups for studying diagnosis and prognosis of electrolytic capacitors in DC- DC power converters. Electrolytic capacitors and power MOSFET’s ...

Accelerated Aging System for Prognostics of Power Semiconductor Devices

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 11 years, 11 months ago

Shared By: Miryam Strautkalns

Prognostics is an engineering discipline that focuses on estimation of the health state of a component and the prediction of its remaining useful life (RUL) ...

Towards Prognostics of Power MOSFETs: Accelerated Aging and Precursors of Failure

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 11 years, 11 months ago

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This paper presents research results dealing with power MOSFETs (metal oxide semiconductor field effect tran- sistor) within the prognostics and health management of electronics. Experimental ...

Aging Methodologies and Prognostic Health Management for Electrolytic Capacitors

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 11 years, 11 months ago

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Understanding the ageing mechanisms of electronic components critical avionics systems such as the GPS and INAV are of critical importance. Electrolytic capacitors and MOSFET’s have ...

Fault Adaptive Control of Overactuated Systems Using Prognostic Estimation

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 11 years, 11 months ago

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A hierarchical architecture was discussed for setting up fault adaptive control of a generic overactuated system with embedded nominal controllers. A finite horizon bounded optimization ...

Battery Health Management System for Electric UAVs

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 11 years, 11 months ago

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In summary, this paper lays out a novel battery health management technique for application onboard an electric UAV. This technique is also applicable to other ...

Predicting Battery Life for Electric UAVs

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 11 years, 11 months ago

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This paper presents a novel battery health management technology for the new generation of electric unmanned aerial vehicles powered by long-life, high-density, scalable power sources. ...

Experimental Validation of a Prognostic Health Management System for Electro-Mechanical Actuators

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 11 years, 11 months ago

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The work described herein is aimed to advance prognostic health management solutions for electro-mechanical actuators and, thus, increase their reliability and attractiveness to designers of ...

Accelerated Aging with Electrical Overstress and Prognostics for Power MOSFETs

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 11 years, 11 months ago

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Power electronics play an increasingly important role in energy applications as part of their power converter circuits. Understanding the behavior of these devices, especially their ...

Adaptive Load-Allocation for Prognosis-Based Risk Management

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 11 years, 11 months ago

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It is an inescapable truth that no matter how well a system is designed it will degrade, and if degrading parts are not re- paired ...

Prognostics of Power MOSFETs under Thermal Stress Accelerated Aging using Data-Driven and Model-Based Methodologies

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 11 years, 2 months ago

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An approach for predicting remaining useful life of power MOSFETs (metal oxide field effect transistor) devices has been developed. Power MOSFETs are semiconductor switching devices ...

A Mobile Robot Testbed for Prognostics-Enabled Autonomous Decision Making

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 11 years, 11 months ago

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The work described in this paper is aimed at providing an inexpensive, safe platform for development, validation, evaluation, and comparison of prognostics-enabled decision making algorithms. ...

Deterministic Compilation of Temporal Safety Properties in Explicit State Model Checking

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 11 years, 11 months ago

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The translation of temporal logic specifications constitutes an essen- tial step in model checking and a major influence on the efficiency of formal verification via ...

Formal Specification and Verification of a Coordination Protocol for an Automated Air Traffic Control System

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 11 years, 11 months ago

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We detail all of the facets of adapting classical model checking to a real aerospace system, in- cluding deriving the formal model and a set ...