Health Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Self Healing in Complex and Networked Engineering Systems

这项研究的目标是解决在设计下一代智能系统方面的基本研究挑战，这些系统集成了健康监测和自我修复功能，并通过命令、控制和通信满足严格的性能要求。许多复杂的工程系统需要在较长的时间内可靠和高效地运行，而不会中断或降低其性能。这种制度的实际例子比比皆是。申请人继续感兴趣，并有将其研究应用于航空航天、汽车、制造、自主空间和水下机器人和结构、(核能)电力和通信、化学和相关过程控制行业、能源储存(电池/燃料电池)和智能电网的记录。出于安全、经济和环境原因，所有这些系统必须不间断地在所需的运行范围内运行。另一方面，由于老化而导致的故障或非性能是不可避免的，因此，能够持续地监视系统的健康状况、检测故障的严重性并对其进行评级、通过自我修复来隔离和适应故障的自动化能力至关重要。拟议的研究满足了加拿大许多行业的需求，具有很高的商业化潜力，同样重要的是，将为加拿大行业提供训练有素的工程师。

The objective of this research is to address fundamental research challenges in designing the next generation of smart systems that have integrated heath monitoring and self-healing capabilities along with the requirement to meet stringent performance requirements through command, control, and communication. Many complex engineering systems need to perform reliably and efficiently for extended periods of time without any interruption or degradation in their performance. Practical examples of such system are abundant. The applicant continues to be interested, and has a track record in application of his research to aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, autonomous space and underwater vehicles and structures, (nuclear) power and communication; chemical and allied process control industries; energy storage (batteries/fuel cells) and smart grids. All of these systems must perform uninterrupted and within the desired operating range for safety, economic, and environmental reasons. On the other hand, failure or non-performance due to aging are inevitable, thus, an automated ability to continuously monitor the health of the system; detect and rank the severity of faults, isolate, and accommodate for failures through self-healing is of utmost importance. The proposed research meets the needs of many Canadian industries, has a high potential for commercialization, and as importantly, will provide the Canadian industries with a supply of highly trained engineers.