In the field of electrical cable fault diagnosis, two kinds of faults are typically encountered.

 

ISTL is an efficient tool for real time soft fault diagnosis.

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Related publications

Qinghua Zhang, Michel Sorine, and Mehdi Admane. Inverse scattering for soft fault diagnosis in electric transmission lines. IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, 59(1):141-148, 2011. [ http ]
Huaibin Tang and Qinghua Zhang. An inverse scattering approach to soft fault diagnosis in lossy electric transmission lines. IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, 59(10):3730-3737, 2011. [ http ]
Huaibin Tang and Qinghua Zhang. An efficient inverse scattering algorithm and its application to lossy electric transmission line synthesis. Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, 24:77-90, 2011. [ http ]
Florent Loete, Qinghua Zhang, and Michel Sorine. Experimental validation of the inverse scattering method for distributed characteristic impedance estimation. IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, 63(6):2532-2538, 2015. [ http ]

Authors: Qinghua Zhang and Michel Sorine.