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Fault-tolerant NCSs with video sensors

Networked control systems, NCS, consist of smart nodes: sensors, actuators, and controllers. The use of such smart nodes is essential in smart factories to be able to with deal with Industry 4.0. NCS are widely implemented in lots of critical industrial applications. A main advantage of NCS is the a...

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Main Author: Ahmed, Hadeer
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description Networked control systems, NCS, consist of smart nodes: sensors, actuators, and controllers. The use of such smart nodes is essential in smart factories to be able to with deal with Industry 4.0. NCS are widely implemented in lots of critical industrial applications. A main advantage of NCS is the abundant bandwidth. This research presents NCS that utilizes switched Ethernet with 16 sensing nodes, 4 actuation nodes & a smart controller. The model also consists of a smart sensor that has an embedded video controller and its actuator. The smart sensor processes the video captured by the onboard camera and the entrenched controller. The study added fault tolerant on the system where the sensor‘s embedded controller acted as a spare controller to the system‘s main and a performability analysis was studied. This system was simulated on Riverbed and various scenarios were tested in the presence and absence of noise. Simulations clearly indicated zero packet loss and no over-delayed packets. The noise in this research was an FTP file being exchanged between the noise node and the main controller. Later in the research, a modification on the system was done and an FPGA was utilized in the system. Making use of its Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration feature where some failures are being repaired without system interruption. In addition to DPR, FPGAs are powerful chips and are used progressively in industry. The modified model includes image storing feature and fault tolerant methods to increase the system‘s reliability and lifetime. In addition to the mentioned features, the new system guarantees less traffic on the network in all cases in comparison to the previous model. Markov Models were developed for both systems and simulated using SHARPE package. A case study was presented to compare both systems in terms of reliability; results indicated that the modified system is more reliable.
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spelling oai:fount.aucegypt.edu:etds-2508 Fault-tolerant NCSs with video sensors Ahmed, Hadeer Networked control systems, NCS, consist of smart nodes: sensors, actuators, and controllers. The use of such smart nodes is essential in smart factories to be able to with deal with Industry 4.0. NCS are widely implemented in lots of critical industrial applications. A main advantage of NCS is the abundant bandwidth. This research presents NCS that utilizes switched Ethernet with 16 sensing nodes, 4 actuation nodes & a smart controller. The model also consists of a smart sensor that has an embedded video controller and its actuator. The smart sensor processes the video captured by the onboard camera and the entrenched controller. The study added fault tolerant on the system where the sensor‘s embedded controller acted as a spare controller to the system‘s main and a performability analysis was studied. This system was simulated on Riverbed and various scenarios were tested in the presence and absence of noise. Simulations clearly indicated zero packet loss and no over-delayed packets. The noise in this research was an FTP file being exchanged between the noise node and the main controller. Later in the research, a modification on the system was done and an FPGA was utilized in the system. Making use of its Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration feature where some failures are being repaired without system interruption. In addition to DPR, FPGAs are powerful chips and are used progressively in industry. The modified model includes image storing feature and fault tolerant methods to increase the system‘s reliability and lifetime. In addition to the mentioned features, the new system guarantees less traffic on the network in all cases in comparison to the previous model. Markov Models were developed for both systems and simulated using SHARPE package. A case study was presented to compare both systems in terms of reliability; results indicated that the modified system is more reliable. 2019-09-02T07:00:00Z thesis application/pdf https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1500 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/2508/viewcontent/Thesis_draft_final.pdf The author retains all rights with regard to copyright. The author certifies that written permission from the owner(s) of third-party copyrighted matter included in the thesis, dissertation, paper, or record of study has been obtained. The author further certifies that IRB approval has been obtained for this thesis, or that IRB approval is not necessary for this thesis. Insofar as this thesis, dissertation, paper, or record of study is an educational record as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 USC 1232g), the author has granted consent to disclosure of it to anyone who requests a copy. Theses and Dissertations AUC Knowledge Fountain Fault Tolerance Networked Control Systems Performability Markov Model FPGA NA
spellingShingle Fault Tolerance
Networked Control Systems
Performability
Markov Model
FPGA
NA
Ahmed, Hadeer
Fault-tolerant NCSs with video sensors
title Fault-tolerant NCSs with video sensors
title_full Fault-tolerant NCSs with video sensors
title_fullStr Fault-tolerant NCSs with video sensors
title_full_unstemmed Fault-tolerant NCSs with video sensors
title_short Fault-tolerant NCSs with video sensors
title_sort fault tolerant ncss with video sensors
topic Fault Tolerance
Networked Control Systems
Performability
Markov Model
FPGA
NA
url https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1500
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