Adaptive fuzzy backstepping control for a class of switched nonlinear systems with actuator faults

This paper investigates the problem of fault-tolerant control (FTC) for a class of switched nonlinear systems. These systems are under arbitrary switchings and are subject to both lock-in-place and loss-of-effectiveness actuator faults. In the control design, fuzzy logic systems are used to identify the unknown switched nonlinear systems. Under the framework of the backstepping control design, FTC, fuzzy adaptive control and common Lyapunov function stability theory, an adaptive fuzzy control approach is developed. It is proved that the proposed control approach can guarantee that all the signals in the closed-loop switched system are semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded (SGUUB) and the tracking error remains an adjustable neighbourhood of the origin. Two simulation examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

An adaptive fuzzy design for fault-tolerant control of MIMO nonlinear uncertain systems

This paper presents a novel control method for accommodating actuator faults in a class of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) nonlinear uncertain systems.The designed control scheme can tolerate both the time-varying lock-in-place and loss of effectiveness actuator faults.In each subsystem of the considered MIMO system,the controller is obtained from a backstepping procedure;an adaptive fuzzy approximator with minimal learning parameterization is employed to approximate the package of unknown nonlinear functions in each design step.Additional control effort is taken to deal with the approximation error and external disturbance together.It is proven that the closed-loop stability and desired tracking performance can be guaranteed by the proposed control scheme.An example is used to show the effectiveness of the designed controller.     

Adaptive fuzzy decentralised fault-tolerant control for nonlinear large-scale systems with actuator failures and unmodelled dynamics

This paper discusses the adaptive fuzzy decentralised fault-tolerant control (FTC) problem for a class of nonlinear large-scale systems in strict-feedback form. The systems under study contain the unknown nonlinearities, unmodelled dynamics, actuator faults and without the direct measurements of state variables. With the help of fuzzy logic systems identifying the unknown functions and a fuzzy adaptive observer is designed to estimate the unmeasured states. By using the backstepping design technique and the dynamic surface control approach and combining with the changing supply function technique, a fuzzy adaptive FTC scheme is developed. The main features of the proposed control approach are that it can guarantee the closed-loop system to be input–to-state practically stable, and also has the robustness to the unmodelled dynamics. Moreover, it can overcome the so-called problem of ‘explosion of complexity’ existing in the previous literature. Finally, simulation studies are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Adaptive fuzzy fault-tolerant output feedback control of uncertain nonlinear systems with actuator faults

This article develops an adaptive fuzzy control method for accommodating actuator faults in a class of unknown nonlinear systems with unmeasured states. The considered faults are modelled as both loss of effectiveness and lock-in-place (stuck at unknown place). With the help of fuzzy logic systems to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions, a fuzzy adaptive observer is developed for estimating the unmeasured states. Combining the backstepping technique with the nonlinear tolerant-fault control theory, a novel adaptive fuzzy faults-tolerant control approach is constructed. It is proved that the proposed control approach can guarantee that all the signals of the resulting closed-loop system are bounded and the tracking error between the system output and the reference signal converges to a small neighbourhood of zero by appropriate choice of the design parameters. Simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the control approach.     

Observer-based adaptive fuzzy fault-tolerant output feedback control of uncertain nonlinear systems with actuator faults

This paper develops an adaptive fuzzy control method for accommodating actuator faults in a class of unknown nonlinear systems with unmeasured states. The considered faults are modeled as lock-in-place (stuck at unknown place). With the help of fuzzy logic systems to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions, and K-filters are designed to estimate the unmeasured states. Combining the backstepping technique with the nonlinear fault-tolerant control theory, a novel adaptive fuzzy faults-tolerant control (FTC) approach is constructed. It is proved that the proposed control approach can guarantee that all the signals of the resulting closed-loop system are bounded and the tracking error between the system output and the reference signal converges to a small neighborhood of zero by appropriate choice of the design parameters. Simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the control approach.     

Adaptive type-2 fuzzy sliding mode controller for SISO nonlinear systems subject to actuator faults

In this paper, an adaptive type-2 fuzzy sliding mode control to tolerate actuator faults of unknown nonlinear systems with external disturbances is presented. Based on a redundant actuation structure, a novel type-2 adaptive fuzzy fault tolerant control scheme is proposed using sliding mode control. Two adaptive type-2 fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate the unknown functions, whose adaptation laws are deduced from the stability analysis. The proposed approach allows to ensure good tracking performance despite the presence of actuator failures and external disturbances, as illustrated through a simulation example.     

带有摄动死区输入的未知非线性系统自适应模糊控制

用自适应模糊控制来实现对带有摄动死区输入的一类未知非线性系统的控制. 文中给出了一种新的死区执行器模型, 该模型含有时变并且摄动的执行增益. 通过将死区非线性分解为一个线性类似项, 一个非线性项和一个扰动类似项降低了扰动类似项的上界, 从而可以用更小的控制力度来实现系统的鲁棒性. 利用反步后推技术与非线性参数化的模糊逼近器结合导出控制器, 该设计取消了模糊基函数须事先已知的限制. 本文不仅从理论上证明了所给控制器能够保证闭环系统的稳定性和预期的跟踪性能, 还用仿真实验验证了控制器的有效性.     

Backstepping adaptive fuzzy control of uncertain nonlinear systems against actuator faults

A class of unknown nonlinear systems subject to uncertain actuator faults and external disturbances will be studied in this paper with the help of fuzzy approximation theory. Using backstepping technique, a novel adaptive fuzzy control approach is proposed to accommodate the uncertain actuator faults during operation and deal with the external disturbances though the systems cannot be linearized by feedback. The considered faults are modeled as both loss of effectiveness and lock-in-place （stuck at some unknown place）. It is proved that the proposed control scheme can guarantee all signals of the closed-loop system to be semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded and the tracking error between the system output and the reference signal converge to a small neighborhood of zero, though the nonlinear functions of the controlled system as well as the actuator faults and the external disturbances are all unknown. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the control approach.     

Data-based Fault Tolerant Control for Affine Nonlinear Systems Through Particle Swarm Optimized Neural Networks

In this paper, a data-based fault tolerant control (FTC) scheme is investigated for unknown continuous-time (CT) affine nonlinear systems with actuator faults. First, a neural network (NN) identifier based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) is constructed to model the unknown system dynamics. By utilizing the estimated system states, the particle swarm optimized critic neural network (PSOCNN) is employed to solve the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation (HJBE) more efficiently. Then, a data-based FTC scheme, which consists of the NN identifier and the fault compensator, is proposed to achieve actuator fault tolerance. The stability of the closed-loop system under actuator faults is guaranteed by the Lyapunov stability theorem. Finally, simulations are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed method.      

Actuator fault detection and performance recovery with Kalman filter-based adaptive observer

A novel Kalman filter-based adaptive observer for the sampled-data nonlinear time-varying system is proposed in this paper. With the high gain property of Kalman filter, it is applicable to a large variation of unknown parameters, which can be estimated optimally. Then a method of actuator fault detection is proposed. With the estimated faults, one can use the proposed input compensation method to solve actuator faults. Additionally, the optimal linearization technique is used to obtain the locally optimal linear model for a nonlinear system at each sampled state, so that the actuator fault detection and performance recovery of a sampled-data nonlinear time-varying system is accomplished. In this paper, we also introduce a prediction-based digital redesign method to develop the corresponding sampled-data controller.     

Adaptive logic‐based switching fault‐tolerant controller design for nonlinear uncertain systems

This paper deals with the problem of fault‐tolerant control (FTC) for a class of nonlinear uncertain systems against actuator faults using adaptive logic‐based switching control method. The uncertainties under consideration are assumed to be dominated by a bounding system which is linear in growth in the unmeasurable states but can be a continuous function of the system output, with unknown growth rates. Several types of common actuator faults, e.g., bias, loss‐of‐effectiveness, stuck and hard‐over faults are integrated by a unified fault model. By utilizing a novel adaptive logic‐based switching control scheme, the actuator faults can be detected and automatically accommodated by switching from the stuck actuator to the healthy or even partly losing‐effectiveness one with bias, in the presence of large parametric uncertainty. In particular, two switching logics for updating the gain in the output feedback controllers are designed to ensure the global stability of the nominal (fault‐free) system and the boundedness of all closed‐loop signals of the faulty system, respectively. Two simulation examples of an aircraft wing model and a single‐link flexible‐joint robot are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed FTC controller. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive fuzzy backstepping output feedback control for strict feedback nonlinear systems with unknown sign of high-frequency gain

In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy robust output feedback control approach is proposed for a class of SISO nonlinear strict-feedback systems with unknown sign of high-frequency gain and the unmeasured states. The nonlinear systems addressed in this paper are assumed to possess the unmodeled dynamics, dynamical disturbances and unknown nonlinear functions, where the unknown nonlinear functions are not linearly parameterized, and no prior knowledge of their bounds is available. In the recursive designing, fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions, K-filters are designed to estimate the unmeasured states, and a dynamical signal and Nussbaum gain functions are introduced to handle the unmodeled dynamics and the unknown sign of the high-frequency gain, respectively. Based on Lyapunov function method, a stable adaptive fuzzy output feedback control scheme is developed. It is mathematically proved that the proposed adaptive fuzzy control approach can guarantee that all the signals of the closed-loop system are uniformly ultimately bounded, the output converges to a small neighborhood of the origin. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is illustrated by the simulation examples.     

Observer-based finite-time security fault-tolerant control for nonlinear multi-agent systems under byzantine adversaries

This article investigates the issue of security-based adaptive output feedback finite-time fault-tolerant control (FTC) for nonlinear multi-agent systems subjected to Byzantine attacks. In this work, the fuzzy logic systems are employed to approximate the unknown nonlinearities, and unmeasurable states are estimated by the designed state observer. In addition, a data selector is designed to detect extremely malicious data of the controlled system. Considering the actuator faults, a novel Nussbaum function is utilized to compensate for the uncertainties of attacks and intermittent failures. Then, by introducing first-order filter, an observer-based distributed adaptive output feedback finite-time security FTC algorithm is developed, which demonstrates all signals of the system are bounded, and the feasibility and effectiveness of the developed control scheme can be verified by simulation results.     

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.     

Data-driven output-feedback fault-tolerant control for unknown dynamic systems with faults changing system dynamics

This paper studies the data-driven output-feedback fault-tolerant control (FTC) problem for unknown dynamic systems with faults changing system dynamics. In a framework of active FTC, two basic issues are addressed: the fault detection employing only the measured input–output information; the controller reconfiguration to achieve optimal output-feedback control in the presence of multiple faults. To detect faults and write the system state via the input–output data, an approach to data-driven design of a residual generator with a full-rank transformation matrix is presented. An output-feedback approximate dynamic programming method is developed to solve the optimal control problem under the condition that the unknown linear time-invariant discrete-time plant has multiple outputs. According to the above results and the proposed input–output data-based value function approximation structure of time-varying plants, a model-free output-feedback FTC scheme considering optimal performance is given. Finally, two numerical examples and a practical example of a DC motor control system are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.     

Adaptive fuzzy output-feedback fault-tolerant tracking control of a class of uncertain nonlinear switched systems

ABSTRACT

This paper considers the output-feedback fault-tolerant tracking control problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear switched systems with nonlinear faults and strict-feedback form, where the faults which are nonaffine occur on the actuator. As a kind of specialised function approximating tool, fuzzy logic systems (FLSs), are employed to approximate the unknown smooth nonlinear functions. A switched fuzzy observer is designed to address the problem of unmeasurable states, filtered signals are used to address algebraic loop problem and the average dwell time (ADT) method is further utilised to prove the stability of the resulting closed-loop systems under a type of slowly switching signals. Based on the backstepping recursive design technique and Lyapunov function method, an adaptive fuzzy output-feedback control scheme is developed. The developed control method can ensure all the signals are semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded (SGUUB) and the system output tracks the reference signal tightly even if unknown fault occurs. A simulation carried on an example demonstrates the validity of the obtained control scheme.     

An adaptive integral sliding mode FTC scheme for dissimilar redundant actuation system of civil aircraft

ABSTRACT

This paper proposed a new adaptive integral sliding mode FTC scheme to deal with the actuator faults and failure. The scheme combines integral sliding mode control, control allocation scheme and adaptive strategy. The unknown actuator faults are handled by adaptive modulation gain of nonlinear ISMC law. To cope with complete failure, control allocation scheme is integrated with the baseline controller to provide tolerance. The proposed strategy relies on the estimate of actuator effectiveness. Therefore, an adaptive sliding mode observer based fault reconstruction scheme is proposed in this paper. The proposed scheme is implemented on dissimilar redundant actuation system driven by hydraulic and electro-hydraulic actuators. In nominal and faulty conditions, both actuators are contributing to achieving the desired control surface deflection. However, when the actuator failure occurs, the control signals are reallocated to the redundant actuator. The problem of dynamics mismatch is addressed using fractional order controller designed in an inner loop. The comparison with the existing literature is also conducted in the simulation to validate the dominant performance.     

Adaptive fuzzy backstepping output feedback control of nonlinear time-delay systems with unknown high-frequency gain sign

In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy robust feedback control approach is proposed for a class of single-input and single-output (SISO) strict-feedback nonlinear systems with unknown nonlinear functions, time delays, unknown high-frequency gain sign, and without the measurements of the states. In the backstepping recursive design, fuzzy logic systems are employed to approximate the unknown smooth nonlinear functions, K-filters is designed to estimate the unmeasured states, and Nussbaum gain functions are introduced to solve the problem of unknown sign of high-frequency gain. By combining adaptive fuzzy control theory and adaptive backstepping design, a stable adaptive fuzzy output feedback control scheme is developed. It has been proven that the proposed adaptive fuzzy robust control approach can guarantee that all the signals of the closed-loop system are uniformly ultimately bounded and the tracking error can converge to a small neighborhood of the origin by appropriately choosing design parameters. Simulation results have shown the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

一类约束非线性系统的自适应模糊容错控制

针对一类输出受限的非线性系统,提出了一种自适应模糊容错控制方案。在考虑可能发生的执行器故障的情况下,采用非线性映射的方法处理系统受约束的输出变量,从而将约束量的初值选取区间扩大为整个约束空间;用有界的参考信号代换未知函数的自变量,再用模糊逼近器处理这些未知函数,并结合自适应技术处理代换误差和逼近误差,从而使得闭环系统为全局一致最终有界,系统输出可以有效跟踪参考信号。仿真结果进一步验证了本文方法的有效性。