A system and related method for monitoring the state of health of sensors
in an integrated vehicle stability control system. In one embodiment, the
system determines whether a yaw rate sensor, a lateral acceleration
sensor or a hand-wheel angle sensor has failed. The system uses a
plurality of models to generate estimates of the outputs of the sensors
based on the actual sensor measurements. Residuals are generated as the
difference between the measured value and each of the estimates for the
particular sensor. The residuals are compared to a threshold to determine
whether a fault flag will be set for each residual. The threshold for the
hand-wheel angle sensor is an adaptive threshold because it does not have
physical redundancy. If the fault flags for the residuals for each sensor
have a particular pattern, then a fault is output for that sensor.