Postgraduate taught 

Product Design Engineering MSc

Fault Detection, Isolation And Recovery ENG5031

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: School of Engineering
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

This course introduces students to the handling of faults in engineering systems. It starts from the basic definition of a fault and leads towards the design of systems so that they are tolerant of faults.  This involves detection, isolation and recovering a faulty system.

Timetable

Teaching Sessions: 1 hour, twice per week
Laboratory Sessions: 3 hours each

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

50% Examination

50% Assignment

Main Assessment In: April/May

Course Aims

The aims of this course are to:

■ introduce the students to the methodologies involved in classifying and quantifying faults within engineering systems;

■ introduce the students to Fault Detection Techniques for engineering systems;

■ introduce the students to Fault Isolation Techniques in the context of engineering systems;

■ introduce the students to Reconfiguration and Redundancy methodologies to compensate for faulty sensors and actuators;

■ enable the students to appreciate the hardware implementation issues associated with these techniques.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ analyse reliability and failure rates of a system;

■ calculate the influence of faults in sensors, systems and actuators;

■ apply a range of methods for detecting faults in engineering systems;

■ develop methods to classify faults based on the symptoms detected;

■ show how systems can be designed to be tolerant to faults;

■ design and implement reconfiguration and redundancy approaches to engineering systems when faults are detected and isolated.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must attend the degree examination and submit at least 75% by weight of the other components of the course's summative assessment.

 

Students must attend the timetabled laboratory classes.

 

Students should attend at least 75% of the timetabled classes of the course.

 

Note that these are minimum requirements: good students will achieve far higher participation/submission rates.  Any student who misses an assessment or a significant number of classes because of illness or other good cause should report this by completing a MyCampus absence report.