Fault-tolerant control for a class of non-linear systems with dead-zone

In this paper, a fault-tolerant control scheme is proposed for a class of single-input and single-output non-linear systems with the unknown time-varying system fault and the dead-zone. The non-linear state observer is designed for the non-linear system using differential mean value theorem, and the non-linear fault estimator that estimates the unknown time-varying system fault is developed. On the basis of the designed fault estimator, the observer-based fault-tolerant tracking control is then developed using the backstepping technique for non-linear systems with the dead-zone. The stability of the whole closed-loop system is rigorously proved via Lyapunov analysis and the satisfactory tracking control performance is guaranteed in the presence of the unknown time-varying system fault and the dead-zone. Numerical simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed backstepping fault-tolerant control scheme for non-linear systems.     

Fault estimation and controller compensation in Lure systems by LPV-embedding

Previous works have considered the use of set invariance theory for fault detection and isolation in nonlinear Lure systems. This paper extends those results and proposes a new actuator fault-tolerant control approach. The fault-tolerant control scheme is designed based on linear parameter-varying (LPV) models of Lure systems. The actuator fault situation is diagnosed by an invariant set-based fault detection and isolation algorithm. Faults are compensated by adapting the controller gain based on estimates of the fault magnitude. Conditions for correct fault detection and isolation, and closed-loop stability are derived. The proposed fault-tolerant control scheme is compared with a linearised model approach and the performance of both, LPV-embedding and linearised, approaches are analysed for scalar and second-order systems. An example of a chaotic Chua circuit is also provided to illustrate the proposed fault-tolerant control scheme in higher-order systems.     

约束多传感器线性系统的RMPC容错控制

针对一类约束多传感器线性故障系统,提出了一种基于鲁棒预测控制策略的容错控制方案．首先为多传感器线性系统设计了观测器,然后离线设计不变集列,使得时变的状态估计误差存在于相应的不变集列中,利用不变集的理论提出了一种新的故障检测的方法,最后基于鲁棒预测控制策略为故障系统设计了容错控制器,给出了闭环系统鲁棒稳定性的证明．仿真结果证明了方法的可行性。     

Fault-tolerant model predictive control of a direct methanol-fuel cell system with actuator faults

This paper investigates fault tolerant model predictive control (MPC) of a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) system with several faults in the methanol feeding pump. An active FTMPC strategy with a hierarchal structural design is developed. The focus here is on fault detection and isolation (FDI) and the implementation of fault-tolerant strategies within the control algorithm. To this end, a model-based FDI scheme with virtual sensors is first developed by means of the real-time diagnosis of fault occurrence during operation. Thereby, several faults in the methanol pump are characterized and the information integrated into the MPC algorithm in each fault case. Strategies are presented to reconfigure the active fault-tolerant MPC to keep the DMFC system stable in case of a feeding failure. Moreover, economic, stability and lifetime characteristics are also integrated into the active fault-tolerant MPC. The proposed FDI and FTMPC scheme is tested experimentally in a DMFC test rig with a 5-cell DMFC stack to demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the designed approach. Several fault scenarios with the FTMPC are shown. Particularly in the case of fuel cells, fault tolerance is necessary to meet the goals of long-lasting system stability and efficiency.     

Fault tolerant control using virtual actuators and set‐separation detection principles

In this paper we combine a set‐separation approach to fault detection and identification (FDI), recently proposed by the authors, with the virtual actuator approach to controller reconfiguration of Steffen and Lunze. The FDI approach is based on the separation of sets that characterize the system operation under different actuator fault situations that can occur in the plant. The derivation of these sets takes into account the closed‐loop system reconfigured by means of the virtual actuator under all considered actuator faults. Analytic conditions in terms of closed‐loop system parameters and bounds on external signals can be deduced from the required set separation which, in turn, guarantees closed‐loop stability, setpoint tracking, and optimal performance properties of the scheme under all considered fault situations. Thus, the main contribution of this paper is twofold. First, it provides an integrated strategy for fault tolerant control by adapting two existing techniques for FDI and for controller reconfiguration to work in combined form. Second, and more importantly, it endows the resulting combined scheme with guaranteed closed‐loop stability, setpoint tracking and optimal performance properties under actuator faults and in the presence of disturbances. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Fault tolerant sliding mode control for T-S fuzzy stochastic time-delay system via a novel sliding mode observer approach

In this paper, a fault estimation and fault-tolerant control problem for a class of T-S fuzzy stochastic time-delay systems with actuator and sensor faults is investigated. A novel sliding mode observer is proposed, which can simultaneously estimate the system states, actuator and sensor faults with good accuracy. Based on the state and actuator fault estimation, a new sliding mode control scheme is developed, which can effectively eliminate the influence of actuator fault. Sufficient conditions for the existence of the proposed observer and fault-tolerant sliding mode controller are provided in terms of linear matrix inequality, and moreover, the reachability of the sliding mode surface can be guaranteed under the proposed control scheme. The propose sliding mode observer and fault-tolerant sliding mode controller can overcome the restrictive assumption that the input matrix of all local modes is the same. Finally, a numerical example is provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed sliding mode observer and fault-tolerant sliding mode control technique.     

Adaptive fault-tolerant control of non-linear systems: an improved CMAC-based fault learning approach

The conventional cerebellar model articulation controllers (CMAC) learning scheme equally distributes the correcting errors into all addressed hypercubes, regardless of the credibility of those hypercubes. This paper presents the adaptive fault-tolerant control scheme of non-linear systems using a fuzzy credit assignment CMAC neural network online fault learning approach. The credit assignment concept is introduced into fuzzy CMAC weight adjusting to use the learned times of addressed hypercubes as the credibility of CMAC. The correcting errors are proportional to the inversion of learned times of addressed hypercubes. With this fault learning model, the learning speed of fault can be improved. After the unknown fault is estimated, online, by using the fuzzy credit assignment CMAC, the effective control law reconfiguration strategy based on the sliding mode control technique is used to compensate for the effect of the fault. The proposed fault-tolerant controller adjusts its control signal by adding a corrective sliding mode control signal to confine the system performance within a boundary layer. The numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed CMAC algorithm and fault-tolerant controller.     

参数不确定性时滞系统的鲁棒H∞容错控制器设计

研究了一类同时具有参数不确定性、外界干扰和时滞的线性系统执行器失效的问题,给出了该系统一种鲁棒Ｈ∞容错控制器的失效执行器的输出信号是任意能量有界的干扰信号,不确定线性时滞系统的容错控制问题转化成了鲁棒Ｈ∞控制问题,控制器可以通过解修正的代数黎卡提方程得到,而且控制器与时滞常数无关,设计例子证明了所给方法的有效性。     

双时滞系统的故障诊断和动态最优容错控制

对含有状态时滞和控制时滞的线性时滞系统, 研究系统发生不可直接测量的传感器故障和执行故障时的故障诊断和最优容错控制问题. 首先基于时滞系统的线性变换, 利用Riccati矩阵方程和Sylvester方程设计了故障情况下的最优容错控制律, 并证明了最优容错控制律的存在唯一性. 然后通过构造一种新的含有故障的增广系统的降维状态观测器, 实现了故障的实时在线诊断和系统状态的观测, 解决了最优容错控制的物理不可实现问题. 最后利用故障诊断的结果给出了物理可实现的动态最优容错控制律. 仿真实例验证了故障诊断方法和动态最优容错控制方法的可行性和有效性.     

Reliable H∞ control of discrete-time systems against random intermittent faults

A passive fault-tolerant control strategy is proposed for systems subject to a novel kind of intermittent fault, which is described by a Bernoulli distributed random variable. Three cases of fault location are considered, namely, sensor fault, actuator fault, and both sensor and actuator faults. The dynamic feedback controllers are designed not only to stabilise the fault-free system, but also to guarantee an acceptable performance of the faulty system. The robust H_∞ performance index is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme. In terms of linear matrix inequality, the sufficient conditions of the existence of controllers are given. An illustrative example indicates the effectiveness of the proposed fault-tolerant control method.     

推力矢量飞机鲁棒故障检测与辨识和 指令滤波容错控制系统设计

针对推力矢量飞机(TVA)在超机动飞行中的舵面故障、执行器故障、参数摄动和外界干扰等问题,提出了一种鲁棒故障检测与辨识和指令滤波容错控制(RFDI–CFFTC)系统设计方法.首先针对TVA故障模型提出了一种基于多观测器的RFDI机制,通过引入自适应律和观测器来补偿参数摄动和外界干扰的影响,实现对舵面故障和执行器故障的准确检测与辨识,同时准确估计故障程度;然后在RFDI的基础上,设计了CFFTC容错控制律,实现包容舵面故障、执行器故障、参数摄动和外界干扰的TVA容错控制,同时改善了传统反步法中的“微分爆炸”问题;最后对RFDI–CFFTC系统的稳定性进行了证明.MATLAB/Simulink仿真验证了本文方法的有效性.     

基于平衡学习的CMAC神经网络非线性滑模容错控制

以一改进的信度分配CMAC(cerebellar model articulation controllers)神经网络为在线故障诊断的手段,将变结构滑模摔制技术引入容错控制器设计之中,提出一种动态非线性系统主动容错控制方法.在常规CMAC学习算法中,误差被平均地分配给所有被激活的存储单元,不管各存储单元存储数据(权值)的可信程度.改进的CMAC中,利用激活单元先前学习次数作为可信度,其误差校正值与激活单元先前学习次数的-p次方成比例,从而提高神经网络的在线学习速度和精度;在此基础上利用滑模控制算法进行容错控制律的在线重构,实现动态非线性系统在线故障诊断与容错控制的集成.分析了系统的稳定性,仿真结果表明改进故障学习算法及容错控制的有效性.     

基于遗传算法的UUV的容错控制律重构方法

针对推进器拥堵故障下,水下机器人可靠性控制问题,将遗传算法引入容错控制律重构之中,提出带约束条件遗传算法的水下机器人容错控制律重构方法.在不同故障情况下,给出相关故障权矩阵,用遗传算法寻找控制矩阵的最优解,重构推进器的控制矩阵.相对于控制矩阵伪逆重构方法,得到的控制量不需要经过截断近似或是放缩近似,从而避免了由于截断或...     

Intelligent non-linear modelling of an industrial winding process using recurrent local linear neuro-fuzzy networks

This study deals with the neuro-fuzzy (NF) modelling of a real industrial winding process in which the acquired NF model can be exploited to improve control performance and achieve a robust fault-tolerant system. A new simulator model is proposed for a winding process using non-linear identification based on a recurrent local linear neuro-fuzzy (RLLNF) network trained by local linear model tree (LOLIMOT), which is an incremental tree-based learning algorithm. The proposed NF models are compared with other known intelligent identifiers, namely multilayer perceptron (MLP) and radial basis function (RBF). Comparison of our proposed non-linear models and associated models obtained through the least square error (LSE) technique (the optimal modelling method for linear systems) confirms that the winding process is a non-linear system. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our proposed NF modelling approach.     

Intelligent non-linear modelling of an industrial winding process using recurrent local linear neuro-fuzzy networks

This study deals with the neuro-fuzzy (NF) modelling of a real industrial winding process in which the acquired NF model can be exploited to improve control performance and achieve a robust fault-tolerant system. A new simulator model is proposed for a winding process using non-linear identification based on a recurrent local linear neuro-fuzzy (RLLNF) network trained by local linear model tree (LOLIMOT), which is an incremental tree-based learning algorithm. The proposed NF models are compared with other known intelligent identifiers, namely multilayer perceptron (MLP) and radial basis function (RBF). Comparison of our proposed non-linear models and associated models obtained through the least square error (LSE) technique (the optimal modelling method for linear systems) confirms that the winding process is a non-linear system. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our proposed NF modelling approach.     

Dissipativity-based distributed fault diagnosis for plantwide chemical processes

Most modern chemical processes consist of a number of process units interconnected with mass and energy flows, often with energy integration and materials recycle loops. As such, faults (process faults, actuator faults, or sensor faults) often propagate to multiple process units (subsystems), causing significant difficulties in fault diagnosis for plantwide systems. In this paper, a general distributed fault diagnosis approach is proposed for plantwide chemical processes, which takes into account the interactions among process units. The distributed fault diagnostic observers are designed to be sensitive to the local faults (local sensitivity) and insensitive to faults in other process units (remote faults insensitivity) and disturbances. The above requirements are formulated as plantwide dissipativity conditions and the gains for the distributed estimators and residual generators are obtained offline by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities. A case study of heat exchanger network is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Robust parameter-dependent fault-tolerant control for actuator and sensor faults

In this article, we study a robust fault-tolerant control (FTC) problem for linear systems subject to time-varying actuator and sensor faults. The faults under consideration are loss of effectiveness in actuators and sensors. Based on the estimated faults from a fault detection and isolation scheme, robust parameter-dependent FTC will be designed to stabilise the faulty system under all possible fault scenarios. The synthesis condition of such an FTC control law will be formulated in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) and can be solved efficiently by semi-definite programming. The proposed FTC approach will be demonstrated on a simple faulty system with different fault levels and fault estimation error bounds.     

Adaptive fault-tolerant control for a class of flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicles

In this paper, a novel adaptive fault-tolerant control (FTC) scheme is proposed for a class of flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicles with unknown inertial and aerodynamic parameters and even input constraints. The fault model under consideration covers the case that all actuators suffer from unknown time-varying faults. In the controller design and stability analysis, we introduce new Lyapunov functions, some differentiable auxiliary functions, a bound estimation approach, and a Nussbaum function, which help us successfully circumvent the obstacle caused by the faults, input constraints, and flexible modes. In addition to higher reliability, the proposed scheme is able to ensure that all closed-loop signals are globally uniformly bounded and to steer the tracking errors of altitude and velocity into predefined arbitrarily small residual sets. As a result, the tracking accuracy can be designated in advance. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

Integrated multiple-model adaptive fault identification and reconfigurable fault-tolerant control for Lead-Wing close formation systems

This paper investigates the attitude and position tracking control problem for Lead-Wing close formation systems in the presence of loss of effectiveness and lock-in-place or hardover failure. In close formation flight, Wing unmanned aerial vehicle movements are influenced by vortex effects of the neighbouring Lead unmanned aerial vehicle. This situation allows modelling of aerodynamic coupling vortex-effects and linearisation based on optimal close formation geometry. Linearised Lead-Wing close formation model is transformed into nominal robust H-infinity models with respect to Mach hold, Heading hold, and Altitude hold autopilots; static feedback H-infinity controller is designed to guarantee effective tracking of attitude and position while manoeuvring Lead unmanned aerial vehicle. Based on H-infinity control design, an integrated multiple-model adaptive fault identification and reconfigurable fault-tolerant control scheme is developed to guarantee asymptotic stability of close-loop systems, error signal boundedness, and attitude and position tracking properties. Simulation results for Lead-Wing close formation systems validate the efficiency of the proposed integrated multiple-model adaptive control algorithm.