ALFA Dataset Tools

Introduction

This repository contains the basic tools to work with the AIR Lab Fault Detection (ALFA) Dataset. ALFA dataset contains autonomous flight sequences of a UAV plane with eight different types of fault happening during the flights and is provided to help advance fault and anomaly detection and isolation research.

For more information about the dataset, please refer to http://theairlab.org/alfa-dataset.

For more information about this project and the publications related to the dataset and this work, please refer to https://theairlab.org/fault-detection.

Description of Tools

These tool packages are provided for reading and working with the dataset:

• alfa-cpp: The tools to read, filter and iterate through the sequences in C++'11 language.

• alfa-python: The tools to read, filter and iterate through the sequences in Python 3.x language.

• alfa-matlab: The tools to read, filter and iterate through the sequences in MATLAB development environment.

• alfa-evaluate: The tools for evaluation of new methods with the provided dataset. The code is written in C++'11 language, but examples are provided in C++'11, Python 3.x and MATLAB on how to evaluate the methods in those languages using these tools.

• alfa-ros-messages: The custom ROS message definitions for topics in the bag files. The message definitions are only provided for working with the bag files and are not required for other dataset file types.

For more information, please refer to each individual package about how to install and use them.

Citation

Tools and Dataset

The tools and the dataset are provided with the following paper published in IJRR (also available on arXiv). Please cite the following publication if you use either the tools or the dataset:

BibTeX:
@article{keipour:dataset:2021,
author={Azarakhsh Keipour and Mohammadreza Mousaei and Sebastian Scherer},
title={{ALFA}: A Dataset for {UAV} Fault and Anomaly Detection},
journal = {The International Journal of Robotics Research},
volume = {40},
number = {2-3},
pages = {515-520},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1177/0278364920966642},
URL = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0278364920966642},
}

IEEE Style:
A. Keipour, M. Mousaei, and S. Scherer, “ALFA: A dataset for UAV fault and anomaly detection,” The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 40, no. 2-3, pp. 515–520, 2021. doi: 10.1177/0278364920966642.

Portions of Dataset

Some portions of the dataset are released in the following ICRA 2019 publication (also available on arXiv). If you use any of those sequences, please also cite this paper:

BibTeX:
@inproceedings{keipour:detection:2019,
author={Azarakhsh Keipour and Mohammadreza Mousaei and Sebastian Scherer},
booktitle={2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
title={Automatic Real-time Anomaly Detection for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles},
year={2019},
month={May},
pages={5679-5685}
doi={10.1109/ICRA.2019.8794286}
}

IEEE Style:
A. Keipour, M. Mousaei, and S. Scherer, “Automatic Real-time Anomaly Detection for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles,” in 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2019, pp.5679-5685. doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2019.8794286.

Authors

• Azarakhsh Keipour - (keipour [at] cmu [dot] edu)
• Mohammadreza Mousaei - (mmousaei [at] cmu [dot] edu)
• Sebastian Scherer - (basti [at] cmu [dot] edu)

License

This software is BSD licensed.

Copyright (c) 2019, Carnegie Mellon University All rights reserved.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported through NASA Grant Number NNX17CL06C.