Hybrid Diagnosis Method Applied to Switched Mechatronic Systems

This article proposes a new diagnosis approach extended to switched mechatronic systems. The best tools of modeling and supervision, notably bond graph and observer, are used to move towards a high reliable fault detection and isolation approach. Researchers have always divided the hybrid observer into two blocks: a location observer that identifies the current mode and a continuous observer that detects faults. Applying the same logic to a system with a higher number of parameters from different energy domains increases the number of calculations and leads to a combinatorial explosion. The innovative interest of the present paper is the optimization of the observer's number using only one block to detect and, at the same time, locate faults. As a second objective, this paper presents an extension of the method to include complex industrial devices, which are in most cases switched mechatronic systems.