A hybrid data-driven fault detection strategy with application to navigation sensors

The integrated navigation system highly relies on the accuracy of measurements of sensors that are susceptible to unknown disturbances. In order to improve the reliability and safety of the navigation system, there is an increasing need for the fault detection of the sensors. In the present study, a hybrid data-driven fault detection strategy is proposed, which is based on residual sequence analysis. Currently, the one-class support vector machine is one of the most popular fault detection methods for navigation systems with many successful cases. Therefore, the one-class support vector machine is combined with time-series similarity measure and modified principal components analysis approaches. The similarity measurement of multi-sequence residuals between a real-time sample and normal condition samples is computed to construct learning features for one-class support vector machine. Similarly, the modified principal components analysis scheme is applied to project residuals onto subspaces and obtain learning features. Moreover, the one-class support vector machine model is applied for abnormal detection if unexpected sensor faults exhibit in measurements and residuals. Finally, experiments are carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed strategy for abrupt faults and soft faults on navigation sensors. Experimental results show that the hybrid data-driven fault detection strategy can effectively detect these faults with short time delay and high accuracy.