A Framework for the Reliability Evaluation of Networked Control Systems

Rony Ghostine (1) , Jean-Marc Thiriet (2) , Jean-François Aubry (1) , Michel Robert (1)

1 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
2 GIPSA-SA-IGA - GIPSA - Signal et Automatique pour le Diagnostic et la Surveillance

this paper presents a framework to enable the analysis of the influence of the transmission faults on the reliability of a networked control system (NCS). The approach is composed of two parts: a modelling part in which all the basic components of a networked control system are modelled and a simulation part in which simulation is done on the models to evaluate the reliability. Due to external perturbations transmission faults may occur on the medium decreasing network quality of service and system performance. These aspects are difficult to assess with traditional dependability method like fault trees and reliability blocks. Our approach is applied to a case study example. The results show that our framework is an effective way for the reliability evaluation of networked control systems.

Keywords: Transient faults; Networked control systems; Reliability analysis; Petri-net

Domains: Automatic

Rony Ghostine, Jean-Marc Thiriet, Jean-François Aubry, Michel Robert. A Framework for the Reliability Evaluation of Networked Control Systems. IFAC WC 2008 - 17th IFAC World Congress, Jul 2008, Séoul, South Korea. pp.6833-6838, ⟨10.3182/20080706-5-KR-1001.3730⟩. ⟨hal-00321441⟩