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ALFA (AirLab Failure and Anomaly Dataset)

ALFA (AirLab Failure and Anomaly Dataset) from CMU's AirLab is a real-world flight dataset for fault detection and isolation (FDI) and anomaly detection (AD) on a fixed-wing UAV. It contains processed data for 47 autonomous flights covering eight fault types: 23 sudden full engine (power loss) failures and 24 scenarios of seven control-surface (actuator) faults including elevator stuck at zero, aileron stuck (left/right/both), rudder stuck (left/right/zero), and combined rudder & aileron faults, plus normal (no-fault) baseline flights. Across the processed sequences there is about 66 minutes of normal flight and 13 minutes of post-fault flight; the full archive additionally includes many hours of raw autonomous, autopilot-assisted, and manual flight data with tens of fault scenarios. The aircraft is a custom-modified Carbon-Z T-28 model plane (2 m wingspan, single electric engine, ailerons/flaperons/elevator/rudder) equipped with a Pixhawk autopilot (modified ArduPilot 3.9.0beta1, MAVLink 2.0), an NVIDIA Jetson TX2 onboard computer, a pitot tube, and a GPS module. Recorded telemetry (typically 20-25 Hz, with some 4-5 Hz topics and ~5 Hz ground-truth fault-status topics) includes commanded and measured roll/pitch/yaw, airspeed and velocity, IMU state and accelerations, GPS/global and local position, wind estimation, path/altitude/airspeed tracking errors, and setpoint commands, along with ground-truth labels for engine, aileron, rudder, and elevator faults. Data is distributed as ROS .bag files plus processed .csv and .mat (MATLAB) exports, plus raw bag files, TX2 telemetry logs, and Pixhawk dataflash logs; cross-platform reader/filter/iterator and evaluation tools (C++, Python, MATLAB) and custom ROS message definitions are provided at github.com/castacks/alfa-dataset-tools (BSD-3 licensed). The dataset is hosted publicly on CMU KiltHub under a CC BY 4.0 license (~1.7 GB compressed / ~12.5 GB uncompressed across processed/raw/dataflash/telemetry archives). Authored by Azarakhsh Keipour, Mohammadreza Mousaei, and Sebastian Scherer (IJRR 2021; arXiv:1907.06268). No camera/vision data — it is telemetry/sensor logs only.

Scale
1.3 hours
Formats
custom · rosbag
License
CC-BY-4.0
Published
2020-07-01

Decision summary

Best for

passive_log

Main blocker

Metadata requires review against the official source before publication.

Next check

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Catalog assessment

Selection evidence

70/100

Provisional · confidence 35 · 2/6 evaluated

Access and governance

Access and license are declared by the source.

usefulfit 75 · confidence 85

Schema and signal coverage

No machine-readable schema has been verified yet.

unknownnot scored · confidence 15

Policy training readiness

Observation/action alignment has not been established.

unknownnot scored · confidence 15
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World-model readiness

World-model observation, geometry, or temporal semantics are not verified.

unknownnot scored · confidence 15

Failure and recovery readiness

No verified failure/recovery annotation evidence is available yet.

unknownnot scored · confidence 15

Download and processing readiness

Scale is declared; transfer and processing estimates are not measured.

usefulfit 65 · confidence 65
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Signal gaps

  • Gaze / attention. Not enough evidence is available to classify this signal.
  • Sim-real pairing. Not enough evidence is available to classify this signal.

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Record specifics

Dataset facts

Source
CMU AirLab
Evidence
secondary claim
Formats
custom · rosbag
episodes
47
hours
1.3
tasks
8
bytes
1745472818
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Metadata coverage

Loop signals

5/7 present or partial

Gaze / attention

No decision-grade evidence captured yet.

unknown
Sim-real pairing

No decision-grade evidence captured yet.

unknown
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Observation / ego video

ALFA (AirLab Failure and Anomaly Dataset) from CMU's AirLab is a real-world flight dataset for fault detection and isolation (FDI) and anomaly detection (AD) on a fixed-wing UAV. It contains processed data for 47 autonomous flights covering eight fault types: 23 sudden full engine (power loss) failures and 24 scenarios of seven control-surface (actuator) faults including elevator stuck at zero, aileron stuck (left/right/both), rudder stuck (left/right/zero), and combined rudder & aileron faults, plus normal (no-fault) baseline flights. Across the processed sequences there is about 66 minutes of normal flight and 13 minutes of post-fault flight; the full archive additionally includes many hours of raw autonomous, autopilot-assisted, and manual flight data with tens of fault scenarios. The aircraft is a custom-modified Carbon-Z T-28 model plane (2 m wingspan, single electric engine, ailerons/flaperons/elevator/rudder) equipped with a Pixhawk autopilot (modified ArduPilot 3.9.0beta1, MAVLink 2.0), an NVIDIA Jetson TX2 onboard computer, a pitot tube, and a GPS module. Recorded telemetry (typically 20-25 Hz, with some 4-5 Hz topics and ~5 Hz ground-truth fault-status topics) includes commanded and measured roll/pitch/yaw, airspeed and velocity, IMU state and accelerations, GPS/global and local position, wind estimation, path/altitude/airspeed tracking errors, and setpoint commands, along with ground-truth labels for engine, aileron, rudder, and elevator faults. Data is distributed as ROS .bag files plus processed .csv and .mat (MATLAB) exports, plus raw bag files, TX2 telemetry logs, and Pixhawk dataflash logs; cross-platform reader/filter/iterator and evaluation tools (C++, Python, MATLAB) and custom ROS message definitions are provided at github.com/castacks/alfa-dataset-tools (BSD-3 licensed). The dataset is hosted publicly on CMU KiltHub under a CC BY 4.0 license (~1.7 GB compressed / ~12.5 GB uncompressed across processed/raw/dataflash/telemetry archives). Authored by Azarakhsh Keipour, Mohammadreza Mousaei, and Sebastian Scherer (IJRR 2021; arXiv:1907.06268). No camera/vision data — it is telemetry/sensor logs only.

present
Action / hand pose / robot state

ALFA (AirLab Failure and Anomaly Dataset) from CMU's AirLab is a real-world flight dataset for fault detection and isolation (FDI) and anomaly detection (AD) on a fixed-wing UAV. It contains processed data for 47 autonomous flights covering eight fault types: 23 sudden full engine (power loss) failures and 24 scenarios of seven control-surface (actuator) faults including elevator stuck at zero, aileron stuck (left/right/both), rudder stuck (left/right/zero), and combined rudder & aileron faults, plus normal (no-fault) baseline flights. Across the processed sequences there is about 66 minutes of normal flight and 13 minutes of post-fault flight; the full archive additionally includes many hours of raw autonomous, autopilot-assisted, and manual flight data with tens of fault scenarios. The aircraft is a custom-modified Carbon-Z T-28 model plane (2 m wingspan, single electric engine, ailerons/flaperons/elevator/rudder) equipped with a Pixhawk autopilot (modified ArduPilot 3.9.0beta1, MAVLink 2.0), an NVIDIA Jetson TX2 onboard computer, a pitot tube, and a GPS module. Recorded telemetry (typically 20-25 Hz, with some 4-5 Hz topics and ~5 Hz ground-truth fault-status topics) includes commanded and measured roll/pitch/yaw, airspeed and velocity, IMU state and accelerations, GPS/global and local position, wind estimation, path/altitude/airspeed tracking errors, and setpoint commands, along with ground-truth labels for engine, aileron, rudder, and elevator faults. Data is distributed as ROS .bag files plus processed .csv and .mat (MATLAB) exports, plus raw bag files, TX2 telemetry logs, and Pixhawk dataflash logs; cross-platform reader/filter/iterator and evaluation tools (C++, Python, MATLAB) and custom ROS message definitions are provided at github.com/castacks/alfa-dataset-tools (BSD-3 licensed). The dataset is hosted publicly on CMU KiltHub under a CC BY 4.0 license (~1.7 GB compressed / ~12.5 GB uncompressed across processed/raw/dataflash/telemetry archives). Authored by Azarakhsh Keipour, Mohammadreza Mousaei, and Sebastian Scherer (IJRR 2021; arXiv:1907.06268). No camera/vision data — it is telemetry/sensor logs only.

partial
Language intent / task phase

has-success-labels · ALFA (AirLab Failure and Anomaly Dataset) from CMU's AirLab is a real-world flight dataset for fault detection and isolation (FDI) and anomaly detection (AD) on a fixed-wing UAV. It contains processed data for 47 autonomous flights covering eight fault types: 23 sudden full engine (power loss) failures and 24 scenarios of seven control-surface (actuator) faults including elevator stuck at zero, aileron stuck (left/right/both), rudder stuck (left/right/zero), and combined rudder & aileron faults, plus normal (no-fault) baseline flights. Across the processed sequences there is about 66 minutes of normal flight and 13 minutes of post-fault flight; the full archive additionally includes many hours of raw autonomous, autopilot-assisted, and manual flight data with tens of fault scenarios. The aircraft is a custom-modified Carbon-Z T-28 model plane (2 m wingspan, single electric engine, ailerons/flaperons/elevator/rudder) equipped with a Pixhawk autopilot (modified ArduPilot 3.9.0beta1, MAVLink 2.0), an NVIDIA Jetson TX2 onboard computer, a pitot tube, and a GPS module. Recorded telemetry (typically 20-25 Hz, with some 4-5 Hz topics and ~5 Hz ground-truth fault-status topics) includes commanded and measured roll/pitch/yaw, airspeed and velocity, IMU state and accelerations, GPS/global and local position, wind estimation, path/altitude/airspeed tracking errors, and setpoint commands, along with ground-truth labels for engine, aileron, rudder, and elevator faults. Data is distributed as ROS .bag files plus processed .csv and .mat (MATLAB) exports, plus raw bag files, TX2 telemetry logs, and Pixhawk dataflash logs; cross-platform reader/filter/iterator and evaluation tools (C++, Python, MATLAB) and custom ROS message definitions are provided at github.com/castacks/alfa-dataset-tools (BSD-3 licensed). The dataset is hosted publicly on CMU KiltHub under a CC BY 4.0 license (~1.7 GB compressed / ~12.5 GB uncompressed across processed/raw/dataflash/telemetry archives). Authored by Azarakhsh Keipour, Mohammadreza Mousaei, and Sebastian Scherer (IJRR 2021; arXiv:1907.06268). No camera/vision data — it is telemetry/sensor logs only.

partial
Feedback / correction / failure

ALFA (AirLab Failure and Anomaly Dataset) from CMU's AirLab is a real-world flight dataset for fault detection and isolation (FDI) and anomaly detection (AD) on a fixed-wing UAV. It contains processed data for 47 autonomous flights covering eight fault types: 23 sudden full engine (power loss) failures and 24 scenarios of seven control-surface (actuator) faults including elevator stuck at zero, aileron stuck (left/right/both), rudder stuck (left/right/zero), and combined rudder & aileron faults, plus normal (no-fault) baseline flights. Across the processed sequences there is about 66 minutes of normal flight and 13 minutes of post-fault flight; the full archive additionally includes many hours of raw autonomous, autopilot-assisted, and manual flight data with tens of fault scenarios. The aircraft is a custom-modified Carbon-Z T-28 model plane (2 m wingspan, single electric engine, ailerons/flaperons/elevator/rudder) equipped with a Pixhawk autopilot (modified ArduPilot 3.9.0beta1, MAVLink 2.0), an NVIDIA Jetson TX2 onboard computer, a pitot tube, and a GPS module. Recorded telemetry (typically 20-25 Hz, with some 4-5 Hz topics and ~5 Hz ground-truth fault-status topics) includes commanded and measured roll/pitch/yaw, airspeed and velocity, IMU state and accelerations, GPS/global and local position, wind estimation, path/altitude/airspeed tracking errors, and setpoint commands, along with ground-truth labels for engine, aileron, rudder, and elevator faults. Data is distributed as ROS .bag files plus processed .csv and .mat (MATLAB) exports, plus raw bag files, TX2 telemetry logs, and Pixhawk dataflash logs; cross-platform reader/filter/iterator and evaluation tools (C++, Python, MATLAB) and custom ROS message definitions are provided at github.com/castacks/alfa-dataset-tools (BSD-3 licensed). The dataset is hosted publicly on CMU KiltHub under a CC BY 4.0 license (~1.7 GB compressed / ~12.5 GB uncompressed across processed/raw/dataflash/telemetry archives). Authored by Azarakhsh Keipour, Mohammadreza Mousaei, and Sebastian Scherer (IJRR 2021; arXiv:1907.06268). No camera/vision data — it is telemetry/sensor logs only.

present
License / format / access

Open · CC-BY-4.0 · custom · rosbag

present
Evidence details and provenance

Official signal claims

Proprioception

Schema and annotations

No machine-readable schema facts are captured.

Sample verification

Pending. Metadata does not prove sample coverage, alignment, or file integrity.

curated official source

Integration notes

  • Metadata requires review against the official source before publication.

Catalog links

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