Research Article

Detection of Sensor Faults in Small Helicopter UAVs Using Observer/Kalman Filter Identification

Table 5

Comparison of results: sensor fault detection with drift of 25% of maximum sensor value for OKID, ARX, correctly tuned Kalman filter, and a Kalman filter with 20% error parameter estimation.

Mean detection timeGPSACCELMAGGYRO

OKID0.132.310.220.421.330.450.290.810.320.421.080.19
ARX0.152.250.280.501.360.400.180.890.400.391.180.19
Kalman0.132.400.300.511.290.390.290.850.380.451.090.27
Kalman, 20% error0.253.890.521.32ā€”2.951.470.970.520.72ā€”1.31