DeMaMech: EU-Japan Collaboration in Higher Education Student Exchange Program

Offer of Research Topic

Offer from	University	Delft University of Technology
	Faculty/Department/Institute	Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Marine Technology and Material Science, Department of Biomechanical Engineering
	Group Name	Delft Center for Systems and Control
Research Theme		Failure Detection in mechatronic systems
Brief Explanation		In order to increase the reliability of mechatronic systems, a new generation of fault tolerant control methods are currently being developed. This methods are not only robust with respect to innaccuracies of the model used in the control design, but can also allert onsets of system component failures. In fault tolerant control, the development of failure detection methods that allow real-time controller reconfiguration is a key problem.
Research Steps		1. Literature survey on fault tolerant control (three month) 2. Developing a model based observer for fault detection for nolinear systems (five month) 3. validating the implemented method in simulation and on a breadboard (two month)
Period		10 months but can be tuned for 5 months
Necessary Background, Knowledge, Skills		Fundamental knowledge about control engineering Computer programming skills. If necessary, some references can be specified.
Further Information		http://www.dcsc.tudelft.nl
Contact Person		Prof. Dr. Michel Verhaegen (m.verhaegen@wbmt.tudelft.nl)