Asynchronous fault detection filter design approach for discrete‐time switched linear systems

This paper is concerned with the problem of the fault detection filter design for discrete‐time switched linear systems with average dwell‐time. The designed fault detection filters are also switched systems, which are assumed to be asynchronously switched with the original switched systems. Improved results on the weighted l₂ performance and the H _? performance are first given, and the multiple Lyaounov‐like functions during matched period and unmatched period for the running time of one subsystem are used. By the aid of multiple Lyapunov‐like functions combined with Projection Lemma, the FD filters are designed such that the augmented systems under asynchronous switching are exponentially stable, and the residual signal generated by the filters achieves the weighted l₂‐gain for disturbances and guarantees the H _? performance for faults. Sufficient conditions are formulated by linear matrix inequalities, and the filter gains are characterized in terms of the solution of a convex optimization problem. Finally, examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design method. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Fault detection and isolation for discrete-time switched linear systems based on average dwell-time method

This article is concerned with the problem of fault detection and isolation (FDI) for discrete-time switched linear systems based on the average dwell-time method. The proposed FDI framework consists of a bank of FDI filters, which are divided into N groups for N subsystems. The FDI filters belonging to one group correspond to the faults for a subsystem, and generate a residual signal to guarantee the fault sensitivity performance for the subsystem, the fault attenuation performance for other subsystems and the disturbance attenuation performance for all subsystems. Different form employing the weighting matrices to restrict the frequency ranges of faults for each subsystem, the finite-frequency H _? performance for switched systems is first defined. Sufficient conditions are established by linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), and the filter gains are characterised in terms of the solution of a convex optimisation problem. Two examples are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design method.     

Asynchronous fault detection observer design for discrete‐time piecewise linear systems

This paper studies the problem of asynchronous fault detection (FD) observer design for piecewise linear systems. Considering that the states of the FD observer and the system may stay at different regions of the state space, asynchronous FD observers are designed at different instants to cope with the challenges incurred by exogenous disturbances and fault signals. By employing new piecewise Lyapunov functions that depend on the different regions where the states are located, it is proved that the proposed asynchronous FD observers ensure the stability and H_∞ performance of the error systems. Three examples are given to show that the new design scheme provides better FD results than the existing design methods.     

Fault detection for a class of impulsive switched systems

The problem of fault detection for a class of nonlinear impulsive switched systems is investigated in this paper. Fault detection filters are designed such that the augmented systems are stable, and the residual error signal generated by the filters guarantees the H∞ performance for disturbances and faults. Sufficient conditions for the design of fault detection(FD) filters are presented by linear matrix inequalities. Moreover, the filter gains are characterized according to a solution of a convex optimization. Finally, an example derived from a pulse-width-modulation-driven boost converter is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the FD design approach.     

Finite‐time H ∞ control for discrete‐time switched nonlinear systems with time delay

In this paper, the problem of finite‐time H _∞ control is addressed for a class of discrete‐time switched nonlinear systems with time delay. The concept of H _∞ finite‐time boundedness is first introduced for discrete‐time switched delay systems. Next, a set of switching signals are designed by using the average dwell time approach, under which some delay‐dependent sufficient conditions are derived to guarantee the H _∞ finite‐time boundedness of the closed‐loop system. Then, a finite‐time H _∞ state feedback controller is also designed by solving such conditions. Furthermore, the problem of uniform finite‐time H _∞ stabilization is also resolved. All the conditions are cast into linear matrix inequalities, which can be easily checked by using recently developed algorithms for solving linear matrix inequalities. A numerical example and a water‐quality control system are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the main results. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Finite‐horizon fault estimation under imperfect measurements and stochastic communication protocol: Dealing with finite‐time boundedness

In this paper, we analyze the finite‐horizon fault estimation issue for a kind of time‐varying nonlinear systems with imperfect measurement signals under the stochastic communication protocol (SCP). The imperfect measurements result from randomly occurring sensor nonlinearities obeying sensor‐wise Bernoulli distributions. The Markov‐chain‐driven SCP is introduced to regulate the signal transmission to alleviate the communication congestion. The aim of the considered issue is to propose the design algorithm of a group of time‐varying fault estimators such that the estimation error dynamics satisfies both the H_∞ and the finite‐time boundedness (FTB) performance requirements. First, sufficient conditions are set up to guarantee the existence of the satisfactory H_∞ FTB fault estimators through intensive stochastic analyses and matrix operations. Then, the gains of such fault estimators are explicitly parameterized by resorting to the solution to recursive linear matrix inequalities. Finally, the correctness of the devised fault estimation approach is demonstrated by a numerical example.     

H∞ bumpless transfer for switched LPV systems and its application

In this paper, the approach of the control bumps limitation is generalised and applied to the problem of H _∞ bumpless transfer for a class of switched linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems. The H _∞ bumpless transfer problem is to design a controller with the amplitude limitation and a parameter and modes-dependent switching law to reduce control bumps of the switched LPV systems and satisfy an H _∞ performance index. The key point is to guarantee the bumps limitation constraint of the switched LPV systems by dual design of controllers and a switching law, even though the constraint for each subsystem is unsatisfied. First, a set of switching signals depending on parameters and modes are designed, and a family of switched LPV controllers with the bumps limitation objective are developed via multiple parameter-dependent Lyapunov functions. Then, a sufficient condition ensuring the H _∞ bumpless transfer performance for a switched LPV system is presented in the format of numerically tractable conditions. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed control design scheme is illustrated by its application to the control design of an aero-engine.     

L2 stability,H∞ control of switched homogeneous nonlinear systems and their semi‐tensor product of matrices representation

This paper investigates the problems of L₂ stability and H_∞ control of switched homogeneous nonlinear systems. This paper gives that if a switched homogeneous nonlinear system with disturbance is internally homogeneously asymptotically stable, then it has a finite L₂ gain, and if a switched homogeneous nonlinear system with disturbance and controls is homogeneously stabilizable under the zero disturbance condition, its H_∞ control problem is solvable under some mild conditions, and a homogeneous solution is given. Then, via the semi‐tensor product of matrices method, the aforementioned obtained results are transformed to linear‐like forms, and the aforementioned obtained Hamilton–Jacobi–Isaacs inequality is transformed to a linear‐like matrix inequality, which makes it feasible to compute the solutions by computer. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

时滞依赖H∞滤波器的有限频故障检测方法

本文研究了线性离散时滞系统的有限频鲁棒故障检测问题.利用故障估计技术,将故障检测滤波器设计问题转化为时滞依赖的H∞滤波器设计问题.本文直接给出刻画有限频故障检测性能的线性矩阵不等式条件,避免因引入加权函数而产生的不准确性.最后,仿真算例表明时滞依赖的有限频故障检测滤波器可以取得比已有结果更好的故障检测性能.     

Quadratic and H∞ switching control for discrete-time linear systems with multiplicative noises

The goal of this paper is to study the switched stochastic control problem of discrete-time linear systems with multiplicative noises. We consider both the quadratic and the H_∞ criteria for the performance evaluation. Initially we present a sufficient condition based on some Lyapunov–Metzler inequalities to guarantee the stochastic stability of the switching system. Moreover, we derive a sufficient condition for obtaining a Metzler matrix that will satisfy the Lyapunov–Metzler inequalities by directly solving a set of linear matrix inequalities, and not bilinear matrix inequalities as usual in the literature of switched systems. We believe that this result is an interesting contribution on its own. In the sequel we present sufficient conditions, again based on Lyapunov–Metzler inequalities, to obtain the state feedback gains and the switching rule so that the closed loop system is stochastically stable and the quadratic and H_∞ performance costs are bounded above by a constant value. These results are illustrated with some numerical examples.     

Fault detection for nonlinear networked control systems with stochastic interval delay characterisation

In this article, we are concerned with the fault detection (FD) problem for nonlinear networked control systems (NCSs) with network-induced stochastic interval delay. By employing the information of probabilistic distribution of networked-induced time-varying delay, nonlinear constraint and the FD filter, nonlinear stochastic delay system model is established. Based on the obtained nonlinear model, utilising FD filter as residual generator, FD of nonlinear NCSs is formulated as nonlinear H _∞-filtering problem. Especially, the stochastic stability and prescribed H _∞ attenuation level are achieved using the Lyapunov functional approach, the desired FD filter is constructed in terms of certain linear matrix inequalities, which depends on not only nonlinear level but also on delay-interval and delay-interval-occurrence-rate. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness and applicability of proposed technique.     

Data‐driven fault detection for linear systems: A q‐step residual iteration approach

This article studies the problem of data‐driven (DD) fault detection (FD) for linear systems. First, based on the DD realization of kernel representation, new residual generators are designed via a q‐step residual iteration method. Then, it is proved that the proposed residual generators guarantee the stability and L₁ performance of the FD error systems, and the presented residual design method is more sensitive to faults than the existing ones constructed directly from available process data. Finally, two simulation examples are provided to verify the effectiveness and advantages of the designed method.     

Event-triggered robust H∞ control for uncertain switched linear systems

In this paper, an event-triggering scheme is implemented in uncertain switched linear systems with time-varying delays and exogenous disturbance. Instead of standard periodically time-triggered, sampled-data control systems, the event-triggered control systems sample data only when an event, typically defined as some performance error exceeding a tolerant bound, occurs. Specifically, considering the disturbance existing in the system, the event-triggered robust H_∞ control problem is studied. In order to guarantee the robust H_∞ performance, the event-triggered full state feedback control, multiple Lyapunov functions method and state-dependent switching law are utilised to construct sufficient conditions in terms of linear matrix inequalities. In particular, since the event-triggered signals and switching signals may interlace with each other, the influence from them on the analysis of robust H_∞ performance is clarified. Subsequently, sufficient design conditions of the sub-controllers’ gains are further presented. Moreover, the Zeno problem is discussed to exclude continuously triggering and sampling. Finally, numerical simulations are provided to verify the feasibility of the proposed approach.     

时滞依赖H_/H∞观测器的线性系统故障检测

本文研究了线性连续时滞系统的鲁棒故障检测问题.利用H_/H∞故障检测方法,设计了故障检测观测器,并给出了时滞依赖的故障检测观测器设计条件.本文直接给出刻画有限频故障检测性能的线性矩阵不等式条件,避免因引入加权函数而产生的不准确性.最后,仿真算例表明时滞依赖的有限频故障检测观测器可以取得比已有结果更好的故障检测性能.     

Mixed H∞ and passive control for linear switched systems via hybrid control approach

This paper investigates the mixed H_∞ and passive control problem for linear switched systems based on a hybrid control strategy. To solve this problem, first, a new performance index is proposed. This performance index can be viewed as the mixed weighted H_∞ and passivity performance. Then, the hybrid controllers are used to stabilise the switched systems. The hybrid controllers consist of dynamic output-feedback controllers for every subsystem and state updating controllers at the switching instant. The design of state updating controllers not only depends on the pre-switching subsystem and the post-switching subsystem, but also depends on the measurable output signal. The hybrid controllers proposed in this paper can include some existing ones as special cases. Combine the multiple Lyapunov functions approach with the average dwell time technique, new sufficient conditions are obtained. Under the new conditions, the closed-loop linear switched systems are globally uniformly asymptotically stable with a mixed H_∞ and passivity performance index. Moreover, the desired hybrid controllers can be constructed by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, a numerical example and a practical example are given.     

On Finite frequency H∞ performance for discrete linear time delay systems

This paper is concerned with the finite frequency H_∞ performance of discrete linear systems with time delay. The disturbance of the system is considered to be restricted in low/middle/high frequency. A novel summation inequality is proposed by including more free weighed matrices. Then by using generalised Kalman–Yakubovich–Popov Lemma and a Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional like method, a new bounded real lemma is presented for the finite frequency H_∞ performance analysis. The advantages and reduced conservatism of the new criterion are illustrated by a classical example from the literature.     

Robust <Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis><Subscript>∞</Subscript> static output feedback control of discrete-time switched polytopic linear systems with average dwell-time

This paper investigates the problem of robust exponential H _∞ static output feedback controller design for a class of discrete-time switched linear systems with polytopic-type time-varying parametric uncertainties. The objective is to design a switched static output feedback controller guaranteeing the exponential stability of the resulting closed-loop system with a minimized exponential H _∞ performance under average dwell-time switching scheme. Based on a parameter-dependent discontinuous switched Lyapunov function combined with Finsler’s lemma and Dualization lemma, some novel conditions for exponential H _∞ performance analysis are first proposed and in turn the static output feedback controller designs are developed. It is shown that the controller gains can be obtained by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), which are numerically efficient with commercially available software. Finally, a simulation example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.