Fault Detection and Identification Method Based on Genetic Algorithms to Monitor Degradation of Electrohydraulic Servomechanisms

Electro Hydraulic Actuators (EHAs) keep their role as the leading solution for the control of current generation primary flight control systems: the main reason can be found in their high power to weight ratio, much better than other comparable technologies. To enhance efficiency and reliability of modern EHAs, it is possible to leverage the diagnostics and prognostics disciplines; these two tools allow reducing life cycle costs without losing reliability, and provide the bases for health management of integrated systems, in compliance with regulations. This paper is focused on the development of a fault detection algorithm able to identify the early signs of EHA faults, through the recognition of their precursors and related degradation patterns. Our methodology provides the advantage of anticipating incoming failures, triggering proper alerts for the maintenance team to schedule adequate corrective actions, such as the replacement of the degraded component. A new EHA model-based fault detection and identification (FDI) method is proposed; it is based on deterministic and heuristic solvers able to converge to the actual state of wear of the tested actuator. Three different progressive failure modes were chosen as test cases for the proposed FDI strategy: clogging of the first stage of the flapper-nozzle valve, spool-sleeve friction increase, and jack-cylinder friction increase. A dedicated simulation model was created for the purpose. The results highlighted that the method is adequate in robustness, since EHA malfunctions were identified with a low occurrence of false alarms or missed failures.

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