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STABILIZER SYSTEM USING FMEA METHOD

studies about rotor swing stabilizer systems. Further investigation is required to determine the
whole sub-systems and after that system FMEA will give better results [10].

Failure analysis coincides if the methodology can be applied to the every stage of the system.
Listing the requirements and functions according to their risk results helps engineers to choose
the components. Thanks to the earliest analyses, product can be designed with regard to
consideration of the risk results. Moreover, FMEA of requirements and FMEA of functions can
be documented due to complete the FMEA in the components.
For the further investigations, as an emerging technologies, a sufficiently robust controller, a
robust fault diagnosis scheme and a reconfiguration mechanism can be designed as a key
challenge of a proper and specific active fault tolerant control system.

Acknowledgement

I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to my thesis advisor Prof. Dr. Hakan
Akyıldız who gave me the opportunity and knowledge.

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Unpublished master’s thesis, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.

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