Abstract:To prevent the auxiliary power unit from over-speed, a study was done in autonomous over-speed protection. The protection overall scheme, protection strategy and built-in-test(BIT) were presented. The selection of speed signal and the protection speed were determined. If either speed 1 or speed 2 is larger than protection speed, the protection shall be performed. When an over-speed condition was detected, APU shall be shutdown. The protection shall not be performed when the APU speed was less than 10%.A built-in-test(BIT) technique was developed to meet the airworthiness requirement. The integrity of speed measuring circuitry test carried out by injecting known frequencies. Through the ground test of APU, the effectiveness of APU autonomous over-speed protection was verified.