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32 results about "Common mode failure" patented technology

Advanced logic system

The Advanced Logic System (ALS) is a complete control system architecture, based on a hardware platform rather than a software-based microprocessor system. It is significantly different from other PLC-type control system architectures, by implementing a FPGA in the central control unit. Standard FPGA logic circuits are used rather than a software-based microprocessor which eliminate problems with software based microprocessor systems, such as software common-mode failures. It provides a highly reliable system suitable for safety critical control systems, including nuclear plant protection systems. The system samples process inputs, provides for digital bus communications, applies a control logic function, and provides for controlled outputs. The architecture incorporates advanced features such as diagnostics, testability, and redundancy on multiple levels. It additionally provides significant improvements in failure detection, isolation, and mitigation for the highest level of integrity and reliability.
Owner:WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP

Method and system for improving reliability of emergency power supplies of nuclear power plant

The invention relates to a method and system for improving reliability of emergency power supplies of a nuclear power plant. At least one path of high-capacity battery energy storage system (fixed energy storage system and / or movable energy storage system) is used to supplement or replace final emergency power supplies of a nuclear power plant. When all existing emergency power supplies of the nuclear power plant fail, the system is started to supply power for equipment in an emergency plant of the nuclear power plant so as to keep discharging waste heat of reactor cores and cooling spent fuel pools of the nuclear power plant, thus ensuring the safety of the nuclear power station. The method and system provided by the invention can be used for resisting against extreme weathers and avoiding common mode failure of the emergency power supplies in the extreme weathers, can strength the reliability of the emergency power supplies of the nuclear power plant and can at least reduce the melting probability of reactor cores by 21.6%, thereby improving the integral nuclear safety level of the nuclear power plant.
Owner:GUANGDONG NUCLEAR POWER JOINT VENTURE +1

Advanced logic system diagnostics and monitoring

The Advanced Logic System (ALS) is a complete control system architecture, based on a hardware platform rather than a software-based microprocessor system. It is significantly different from other PLC-type control system architectures, by implementing a FPGA in the central control unit. Standard FPGA logic circuits are used rather than a software-based microprocessor which eliminate problems with software based microprocessor systems, such as software common-mode failures. It provides a highly reliable system suitable for safety critical control systems, including nuclear plant protection systems. The system samples process inputs, provides for digital bus communications, applies a control logic function, and provides for controlled outputs. The architecture incorporates advanced features such as diagnostics, testability, and redundancy on multiple levels. It additionally provides significant improvements in failure detection, isolation, and mitigation for the highest level of integrity and reliability.
Owner:WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP

Advanced logic system

The Advanced Logic System (ALS) is a complete control system architecture, based on a hardware platform rather than a software-based microprocessor system. It is significantly different from other PLC-type control system architectures, by implementing a FPGA in the central control unit. Standard FPGA logic circuits are used rather than a software-based microprocessor which eliminate problems with software based microprocessor systems, such as software common-mode failures. It provides a highly reliable system suitable for safety critical control systems, including nuclear plant protection systems. The system samples process inputs, provides for digital bus communications, applies a control logic function, and provides for controlled outputs. The architecture incorporates advanced features such as diagnostics, testability, and redundancy on multiple levels. It additionally provides significant improvements in failure detection, isolation, and mitigation for the highest level of integrity and reliability.
Owner:WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP

Computer interlocking system and redundancy switching method thereof

The invention provides a computer interlocking system and a redundancy switching method thereof. The system includes an interlocking subsystem. The interlocking subsystem contains an interlocking I system and an interlocking II system which are the same and are interconnected. Each of the interlocking I system and the interlocking II system includes two CPUs which are the same in hardware and adopt task-level synchronization. The two CPUs respectively run executable files generated by compiling the same program code by different compilers. According to the system, heterogeneous software / hardware and program running starting times with a fixed difference are adopted to reduce occurrence probability of common-mode faults, development difficulty is reduced while the common-mode faults are reduced, production efficiency is improved, and reducing of requirements of debugging and maintenance is realized.
Owner:CRSC RESEARCH & DESIGN INSTITUTE GROUP CO LTD

Aircraft electric braking system

An electrically actuated braking system for an aircraft, comprising: an electro-mechanical brake actuator (EMAbrake) proximate a wheel of the aircraft, the EMAbrake including a motor; an electro-mechanical actuator controller (EMAC) including a first motor controller for generating a first drive signal for the EMAbrake, and a second motor controller for generating a second drive signal for the EMAbrake, wherein the first motor controller and the second motor controller are dissimilar so as to provide protection against common mode failure of the first and second motor controllers.
Owner:CRANE AEROSPACE INC +1

Plant protection system and method using field programmable gate array

Provided is a plant protection system, which determines initiation of protective actions for the plant, and more particularly to the plant protection system including four channels which controls systems that shut down the plant or mitigate consequences of abnormal conditions of the plant by detecting non-permissible plant conditions with the result of bistable logic comparing process parameters with their setpoints assigned to each channel. Accordingly, common mode failure and cyber security vulnerability caused by software are removed since the system is composed of FPGA and other types of hardware without central processing units and software in determining the initiation of plant protective actions.
Owner:KOREA ELECTRIC POWER CORP

Nuclear power station diversity protective system hardware architecture based on field programmable gate array (FPGA)

The invention provides a nuclear power station diversity protective system hardware architecture based on field programmable gate array (FPGA), aims at solving the technical problem to avoid potential risks caused by software common mode failure, and belongs to the industrial automatic control field. The architecture is characterized in that a card piece comprises an analogy quantity input card, a logical processing card, a digital quantity input / output card and a communication card, the card piece respectively uses the FPGA as a logical processing component, the analogy quantity input card and the digital quantity input / output card respectively carry out data transmission through a signal transmission line and the logical processing card, and the analogy quantity input card, the digital quantity input / output card, the logical processing card, an upper computer and display equipment respectively carry out the data transmission through the signal transmission line and the communication card. The architecture solves the problem of the potential risks brought about by the software common mode failure, and improves reliability of a nuclear power station instrument control system. Simultaneously, self diagnosis, real-time monitor, parameter setting and online channel test of the card piece can be carried out, and flexible card piece arrangement can ensure expandability and integrity of a whole hardware platform.
Owner:STATE NUCLEAR POWER AUTOMATION SYST ENGCO

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Power System for Minimizing Propulsion Failure

InactiveUS20210362866A1Not enough securityReduce security flawsPropellersEnergy efficient operational measuresLevel flightFlight vehicle
A UAV and its power system, and a system for minimizing UAV failure. The UAV power system has a propulsion propeller, which is arranged at the rear end of the UAV; the traction propeller which is arranged at the front end of the UAV; either the traction propeller or the propulsion propeller is the main propeller while the other is the backup one; when the UAV is in the level flight stage, at least one of the traction propeller and the propulsion propeller is in the working state; and the driving component which is used to drive the propulsion propeller and the traction propeller. The UAV power system provided by the disclosure is provided with a traction propeller and a propulsion propeller, respectively, to improve the failure redundancy and reduce the safety deficiency of the probability of common mode failure (CMF).
Owner:SHANGHAI AUTOFLIGHT CO LTD

Software common mode failure detection system of nuclear power station security level DCS and control method thereof

The invention discloses a software common mode failure detection system of a nuclear power station security level DCS. The software common mode failure detection system comprises a software control system sending a software control signal and a hardware control system sending a hardware control signal, wherein the software control system and the hardware control system are respectively in selection card connection with a receiving signal in anoptimization selection card mode. The optimization selection card is connected with a controlled device. The software control system and the hardware control system are further respectively connected with a common mode failure detection module which detects whether the software control system is correct or not. The common mode failure detection module is connected with the optimization selection card. According to the software common mode failure detection system of the nuclear power station security level DCS and the control method of the common mode failure detection software system of the nuclear power station security level DCS, correctness of the software control system is firstly judged, then with the basis, correctness of the hardware control system is judged, and correct output of the optimization selection card is guaranteed. The common mode failure detection module can detect the software control system in a real-time mode, and therefore the failure of the software control signal and the failure of the hardware control signal can be found out in a real-time mode, and changing-over can be carried out timely.
Owner:CHINA TECHENERGY +1

Equipment multipath instruction control method and preferable control instruction output device of nuclear power station

The invention discloses an equipment multipath instruction control method and a preferable control instruction output device of a nuclear power station, and aims at solving the technical problems that in the prior art onsite equipment is in error control when a DCS has faults and emits an error control signal to the onsite equipment and a DCS platform of the present safety level is incapable of cancelling the error instruction of the DCS. The method comprises that S1) when a control system of the nuclear power station runs, multipath instructions emitted by the control system are received; S2) whether the digital control system has a common-mode fault is determined to obtain a determination result; and S3) when the determination result is no, the onsite equipment is started or stopped according to first instruction emitted by the digital control system, and when the determination result is yes, the onsite equipment is started or stopped according to second instruction emitted by a backup disk. Thus, the DCS error instruction is canceled when the DCS has errors, and the onsite equipment is effectively controlled based on the instruction emitted by the backup disk.
Owner:中广核工程有限公司 +1

Protection system for dealing with heat rejection reduction superimposed SWCCF accidents

The invention discloses a protection system for dealing with heat rejection reduction superimposed SWCCF (software common-mode failure) accidents. The protection system is used for the heat rejectionreduction accident of one loop in a nuclear power plant, and protects the nuclear power plant when the safety level platform of the nuclear power plant has the SWCCF condition and a reactor main protection system loses the protection function. The protection system comprises: a measurement unit used for measuring relevant safety data of the nuclear power plant; a processing and transmitting channel used for processing the measured relevant safety data and transmitting the processed data to a control unit; and the control unit used for performing logical judgment on the data processed by the transmitting channel and performing a protection operation on the nuclear power plant according to the judgment result. The protection system of the invention can trigger emergency shutdown and start anauxiliary water supply system when the main protection system fails in order to avoid the nuclear power plant from losing protection, so the safety of a core and the integrity of a containment are ensured.
Owner:NUCLEAR POWER INSTITUTE OF CHINA

Method for monitoring the integrity of an aircraft position computed on board

A method for monitoring the integrity of an aircraft position computed on board including on-board means for monitoring the aircraft position that are able to detect common-mode failures. Dissimilar computing channels of the aircraft position are utilized, the dissimilar channels being on-board in the aircraft. Each aircraft position primary computing channel is supplemented by a dissimilar computing channel, which allows the coherence of the primary aircraft position, the position computed by the primary computing channels, to be verified. Mechanisms for verifying the reliability of the results from dissimilar computing channels are implemented to limit a loss of performance from the utilization of dissimilar computing channels, which are less performing than primary computing channels.
Owner:AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SAS)

Flooded subzone partitioning system and method for nuclear power plant

The invention discloses a flooded subzone partitioning system for a nuclear power plant. The system is characterized by comprising a flooded subzone preliminary partitioning module, a flooded water level calculating module and a flooded subzone determining and optimizing module, wherein the flooded subzone preliminary partitioning module is used for preliminarily carrying out flooded subzone partitioning on an area of the nuclear power plant according to distribution conditions of flooding sources and important devices in the area of the nuclear power plant; the flooded water level calculating module is connected with the flooded subzone preliminary partitioning module and is used for calculating a flooded water level of each flooded subzone; and the flooded subzone determining and optimizing module is connected with the flooded water level calculating module and is used for determining existing subzones or optimizing and adjusting flooded subzones according to influence on the important devices in corresponding subzones caused by flooded water levels. According to the system, devices and components of different safe series, which execute the same safety function, are effectively isolated, and common-mode failure of different series devices, which execute some safety function, caused by flooding of the same time is avoided. In addition, the invention further discloses a flooded subzone partitioning method for the nuclear power plant.
Owner:中广核工程有限公司 +2

Protection system for dealing with heat rejection increase superimposed SWCCF accidents

The invention discloses a protection system for dealing with heat rejection increase superimposed SWCCF (software common-mode failure) accidents. The protection system is used for protecting a nuclearpower plant when the safety level platform of the nuclear power plant has the SWCCF condition and a reactor main protection system loses the protection function. The protection system comprises: a measurement unit used for measuring relevant safety data of the nuclear power plant; a processing and transmitting channel used for processing the measured relevant safety data and transmitting the processed data to a control unit; and the control unit used for performing logical judgment on the data processed by the transmitting channel and performing a protection operation on the nuclear power plant according to the judgment result. The protection system of the invention improves the safety of the nuclear power plant.
Owner:NUCLEAR POWER INSTITUTE OF CHINA

Sensor intelligent data reconstruction method and system

The invention relates to a sensor intelligent data reconstruction method and system, and the method comprises the steps: sequentially judging whether a data reconstruction model operation condition is met or not, judging whether a sensor state detection result is abnormal or not, inputting the real-time measurement data of a sensor with an abnormal detection result into a data reconstruction model, and obtaining a reconstruction value. The fault sensor can be rapidly and actively identified, data are automatically generated under the condition that related conditions are met, the numerical value of the fault sensor is replaced, it is guaranteed that a unit is in a safe and stable state, and time is bought for operation control operation of operators and field maintenance replacement work of maintenance personnel. The method can replace the traditional'periodic test ', and uniform and targeted maintenance is realized during planned shutdown, so that the operation and maintenance cost is reduced. The unit operation state can be automatically stabilized under the condition of sensor common-mode fault, and the safety and stability of nuclear power plant operation are improved.
Owner:CHINA NUCLEAR POWER ENG CO LTD

A non-similar dual-redundancy airborne alarm computer system

InactiveCN109918258ASuppresses Common Mode FaultsImprove reliabilityHardware monitoringProcess moduleCommon mode failure
The invention relates to a non-similar dual-redundancy airborne alarm computer system, which comprises an alarm information output module, an A platform, a B platform and an alarm information acquisition module, the alarm information acquisition module is respectively connected with the platform A and the platform B; the platform A and the platform B are respectively connected with the alarm information output module; wherein the platform A comprises a power supply module, a platform A processor, a bus interface / processing module and a discrete interface / processing module; wherein the power supply module and the A platform processor are sequentially connected, and the A platform processor is respectively connected with the bus interface / processing module and the discrete interface / processing module; the platform B comprises a power module, a platform processor B, a bus interface / processing module and a discrete interface / processing module, and the connection mode is the same as that ofthe platform A; the non-similar redundancy technology effectively inhibits common-mode faults in the aspects of hardware and software, and the reliability of the system is greatly improved.
Owner:四川中天策略科技有限公司

Diversity and defense-in-depth simulation apparatus

A simulator system transfers parameters between an enhanced nuclear power plant simulator and a safety control system simulator. Problems concerning software common mode failure, interface interactions errors, software failure complexity, and other failure modes, are evaluated. Thus, diversity and defense-in-depth are analyzed and safety is improved.
Owner:INST NUCLEAR ENERGY RES ROCAEC

A system and method for dividing water-flooded zones of a nuclear power plant

The invention discloses a flooded subzone partitioning system for a nuclear power plant. The system is characterized by comprising a flooded subzone preliminary partitioning module, a flooded water level calculating module and a flooded subzone determining and optimizing module, wherein the flooded subzone preliminary partitioning module is used for preliminarily carrying out flooded subzone partitioning on an area of the nuclear power plant according to distribution conditions of flooding sources and important devices in the area of the nuclear power plant; the flooded water level calculating module is connected with the flooded subzone preliminary partitioning module and is used for calculating a flooded water level of each flooded subzone; and the flooded subzone determining and optimizing module is connected with the flooded water level calculating module and is used for determining existing subzones or optimizing and adjusting flooded subzones according to influence on the important devices in corresponding subzones caused by flooded water levels. According to the system, devices and components of different safe series, which execute the same safety function, are effectively isolated, and common-mode failure of different series devices, which execute some safety function, caused by flooding of the same time is avoided. In addition, the invention further discloses a flooded subzone partitioning method for the nuclear power plant.
Owner:中广核工程有限公司 +2

Alarm filtering method and system of nuclear power plant, medium and electronic equipment

The invention discloses an alarm filtering method and system of a nuclear power plant, a medium and electronic equipment, and is suitable for nuclear power plant equipment function alarm. The alarm filtering method comprises the following steps of: S1, pre-establishing a causal relationship among all alarm events; S2, after the alarm events are received, analyzing and determining a causal relationship of the received alarm events according to the pre-established causal relationship among all the alarm events, and acquiring at least one of a reason alarm event, a result alarm event and an unknown alarm event; and S3, after analysis processing, reserving all reason alarm events. Under the transient or accident working condition, the number of intermediate alarms of the nuclear power plant can be effectively reduced, useful alarms can be reserved as little as possible, the workload of an operator is reduced, fault points can be quickly positioned, the operator is helped to identify and judge common-mode faults and multiple independent faults, the operator is helped to effectively control a unit as early as possible, and event deterioration is prevented.
Owner:中广核工程有限公司 +1

Non-similar dual-redundancy atmosphere data processing system and method for civil airliner

The invention provides a non-similar dual-redundancy atmosphere data processing system and method for a civil airliner, and the safety and reliability of the system and the fault-tolerant requirement of fault work are ensured by adopting redundancy design. For performance requirements and technical indexes of the atmospheric data computer, a framework of a redundant parallel type dissimilar dual-redundancy CPU working mode is adopted, possible common-mode faults of software and hardware are effectively restrained, the reliability and safety requirements of the atmospheric data computer are guaranteed, and safety evaluation and analysis are conducted on the atmospheric data computer through a fault tree.
Owner:CHENGDU KAITIAN ELECTRONICS

A computer interlocking system and its redundancy switching method

The invention provides a computer interlocking system and its redundant switching method, including an interlocking subsystem, the interlocking subsystem includes the same and interconnected interlocking I system and interlocking II system, wherein: the interlocking I system and the interlocking system Both the II series include two CPUs with the same hardware and using task-level synchronization, and the two CPUs respectively run executable files generated by compiling the same program code with different compilers. The invention adopts heterogeneous software / hardware and fixed difference program starting time to reduce the probability of common mode failures, reduces the difficulty of development while reducing common mode failures, improves production efficiency, and reduces debugging and maintenance. requirements.
Owner:CRSC RESEARCH & DESIGN INSTITUTE GROUP CO LTD

Software common mode fault detection system and its control method for safety level dcs of nuclear power plant

The invention discloses a software common mode failure detection system of a nuclear power station security level DCS. The software common mode failure detection system comprises a software control system sending a software control signal and a hardware control system sending a hardware control signal, wherein the software control system and the hardware control system are respectively in selection card connection with a receiving signal in anoptimization selection card mode. The optimization selection card is connected with a controlled device. The software control system and the hardware control system are further respectively connected with a common mode failure detection module which detects whether the software control system is correct or not. The common mode failure detection module is connected with the optimization selection card. According to the software common mode failure detection system of the nuclear power station security level DCS and the control method of the common mode failure detection software system of the nuclear power station security level DCS, correctness of the software control system is firstly judged, then with the basis, correctness of the hardware control system is judged, and correct output of the optimization selection card is guaranteed. The common mode failure detection module can detect the software control system in a real-time mode, and therefore the failure of the software control signal and the failure of the hardware control signal can be found out in a real-time mode, and changing-over can be carried out timely.
Owner:CHINA TECHENERGY +1

Method and system for realizing 2oo2 safety display by single industrial personal computer

The invention discloses a method and a system for realizing 2oo2 security display by a single industrial personal computer. The method comprises the following steps: sending a return code to the industrial personal computer; the CPU and the GPU in the industrial personal computer respectively process the returned codes to obtain two calculation results; differentially displaying the two calculation results on a display interface of the industrial personal computer; according to the two calculation results displayed in a differentiated mode, the returned code is judged. Two pieces of calculation result information are displayed on a display interface of the same industrial personal computer, the display mode is similar to an existing information display mode, and no special or complicated steps exist; a different design method is adopted, so that the common mode failure of the industrial personal computer in the calculation and display of a command execution result is greatly prevented, and the safety of the system is improved; compared with the prior art, the system technology better meets the standard requirements, and the safety and reliability of equipment are improved.
Owner:CASCO SIGNAL

Hardware Architecture of Diversity Protection System of Nuclear Power Plant Based on FPGA

ActiveCN102981431BIntegrity guaranteedOvercoming Potential Risks Presented by Common Mode FaultsProgramme controlComputer controlAutomatic controlDisplay device
The invention is a hardware architecture of a nuclear power plant diversity protection system based on FPGA, the technical problem to be solved is to avoid potential risks caused by software common mode failure, and belongs to the field of industrial automatic control. It is characterized in that: the card piece includes an analog quantity input card, a logic processing card, a digital quantity input / output card and a communication card, and the card piece all use FPGA as a logic processing element; the analog quantity input card and the digital quantity input / output card pass through the Signal transmission line and logic processing card carry out data transmission; analog input card, digital input / output card, logic processing card, host computer and display device carry out data transmission through signal transmission line and communication card respectively. The present invention overcomes the potential risk brought by software common mode failure, and improves the reliability of the nuclear power plant instrumentation and control system. At the same time, it can also perform self-diagnosis, real-time monitoring, parameter setting and online channel testing of the card. The flexible card configuration ensures the scalability and integrity of the entire hardware platform.
Owner:STATE NUCLEAR POWER AUTOMATION SYST ENGCO

Servo control electronic system and REU instruction conversion method thereof

The invention discloses a servo control electronic system and an REU instruction conversion method thereof. The system comprises a plurality of first-type remote electric control units REUs, a plurality of second-type REUs, an actuator control electronic ACE and an auxiliary flight control unit AFCU. Each first-type REU is connected to one ACE, and each second-type REU is connected to one ACE andone AFCU; the ACE is used for sending a servo control instruction to the first-type REU or the second-type REU connected with the ACE; the AFCU is used for sending the servo control instruction to thesecond-type REU connected with the AFCU; and the REU is connected with one actuator and is used for controlling the movement of the corresponding actuator through a servo control instruction sent bythe ACE or the AFCU. According to the embodiment of the invention, the risk that an aircraft is out of control thoroughly due to the fact that all REUs lose control instructions because ACE hardware has a common-mode fault in a civil aircraft fly-by-wire flight control system with an existing architecture is solved.
Owner:XIAN FLIGHT SELF CONTROL INST OF AVIC
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