Review on fault diagnosis of unmanned underwater vehicles

The ocean surroundings are mostly complex and harsh, which make the faults of the unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) difficult to avoid. Fault diagnosis (FD) technologies for UUVs can assist in providing the damage states and are helpful for implementing the targeted fault-tolerant strategies with which further expansion of the losses could be prevented. In the past three decades, a lot of researches on UUV FD have been carried out, from which the findings are classified and analyzed in this paper to present a clear status of the development for the future studies. The task, capability, and component layers of FD are defined based on the specific control structure of the UUVs, where the task layer FD concerns the overall risks of the system operation and task execution, the capability layer FD describes the comprehensive effects on the motion and sensing features with multiple components, and the component layer FD pays attention to the physical information toward specific components. For each layer, the literatures are organized and briefly explained based on the similarities of solutions. Accordingly, some worthwhile issues to be solved are summarized.

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The article discusses the importance of fault diagnosis (FD) technologies for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), highlighting the task, capability, and component layers of FD in relation to specific control structures of UUVs. It also summarizes the worthwhile issues that need to be addressed in future research.