Data-Driven Fault Diagnosis for Satellite Control Moment Gyro Assembly with Multiple In-Phase Faults

Abstract

A satellite can only complete its mission successfully when all its subsystems, including the attitude control subsystem, are in healthy condition and work properly. Control moment gyroscope is a type of actuator used in the attitude control subsystems of satellites. Any fault in the control moment gyroscope can cause the satellite mission failure if it is not detected, isolated, and resolved in time. Fault diagnosis provides an opportunity to detect and isolate the occurring faults and, if accompanied by proactive remedial actions, it can avoid failure and improve the satellite reliability. In this paper, an enhanced data-driven fault diagnosis is introduced for fault isolation of multiple in-phase faults of satellite control moment gyroscopes that has not been addressed in the literature before with high accuracy. The proposed method is based on an optimized support vector machine, and the results yield fault predictions with up to 95.6% accuracy. In addition, a sensitivity analysis with regard to noise, missing values, and missing sensors is done. The results show that the proposed model is robust enough to be used in real applications.