Integral Sliding Mode Fault‐Tolerant Control for Spacecraft With Uncertainties and Saturation

An integral sliding mode fault‐tolerant control method is proposed to deal with faults with matched uncertainties, unmatched uncertainties, and input saturation. Integral sliding mode, control allocation, and parameter identification are included in this method. The Lyapunov stability conditions of the integral sliding mode control for uncertainties and input saturation, respectively, are obtained, which denote the robustness extent of the controller. The direct method for control allocation is improved by adding a judgement before calculating for each facet. Finally, the fault‐tolerant scheme is applied to a six‐wheel spacecraft and simulations are given to show its effectiveness.     

Fault‐Tolerant Control Allocation for Overactuated Nonlinear Systems

This paper addresses the problem of fault‐tolerant control allocation for input affine nonlinear systems. The proposed scheme is divided in three main tasks: fault detection and estimation using a nonlinear observer, fault isolation through a bank of unknown input observers with a resetting policy to reduce the effects of nonlinearities and control reconfiguration based on reduced order allocation. Analytical results regarding the isolability and reconfigurability of actuator faults are derived and a simulation example is used to illustrate the the proposed fault tolerant control methodology.     

Robust Fault‐Tolerant Control of Launch Vehicle Via GPI Observer and Integral Sliding Mode Control

A robust fault‐tolerant attitude control scheme is proposed for a launch vehicle (LV) in the presence of unknown external disturbances, mismodeling dynamics, actuator faults, and actuator's constraints. The input‐output representation is employed to describe the rotational dynamics of LV rendering three independently decoupled second order single‐input‐single‐output (SISO) systems. In the differential algebraic framework, general proportional integral (GPI) observers are used for the estimations of the states and of the generalized disturbances, which include internal perturbations, external disturbances, and unknown actuator failures. In order to avoid the defects of the conventional sliding surface, a new nonlinear integral sliding manifold is introduced for the robust fault‐tolerant sliding mode controller design. The stability of the GPI observer and that of the closed‐loop system are guaranteed by Lyapunov's indirect and direct methods, respectively. The convincing numerical simulation results demonstrate the proposed control scheme is with high attitude tracking performance in the presence of various disturbances, actuator faults, and actuator constraints.     

Robust Actuator‐Fault‐Tolerant Control System Based on Sliding‐Mode Observer for Thrust‐Vectoring Aircrafts

In this paper, a robust actuator‐fault‐tolerant control (FTC) system is proposed for thrust‐vectoring aircraft (TVA) control. To this end, a TVA model with actuator fault dynamics, disturbances, and uncertain aerodynamic parameters is described, and a local fault detection and identification (FDI) mechanism is proposed to locate and identify faults, which utilizes an adaptive sliding‐mode observer (SMO) to detect actuator faults and two SMOs to identify and estimate their parameters. Finally, a fault‐tolerant controller is designed to compensate for these actuator faults, disturbances, and uncertain aerodynamic parameters; the approach combines back‐stepping control with fault parameters and a high‐order SMO. Furthermore, the stability of the entire control system is validated, and simulation results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness and potential for this robust FTC system.     

Finite‐Time Fault‐Tolerant Control for a Class of Non‐Affine Nonlinear System Using Sliding Mode Disturbance Observer

This study investigates a finite‐time fault‐tolerant control scheme for a class of non‐affine nonlinear system with actuator faults and unknown disturbances. A global approximation method is applied to non‐affine nonlinear system to convert it into an affine‐like expression with accuracy. An adaptive terminal sliding mode disturbance observer is proposed to estimate unknown compound disturbances in finite time, including external disturbances and system uncertainties, which enhances system robustness. Controllers based on finite‐time Lyapunov theory are designed to force tracking errors to zero in finite time. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed method.     

Fault‐Tolerant Control Based on Augmented State Estimator and PDF

A new fault‐tolerant control based on augmented state estimator and probability density function (PDF) is proposed for a stochastic distribution system (SDS) with time‐delay and additive fault. First, a system model based on a PDF with the additive fault is constructed by using square‐root rational B‐spline neural networks. Second, an augmented system is obtained by converting the additive fault as an auxiliary state variable. In this framework, a robust augmented state estimator is designed to estimate the original states and the additive fault simultaneously. Then, based on the obtained estimation of fault, a delay‐dependent fault‐tolerant control is designed to compensate the fault. Finally, the numerical simulations show the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Fault‐Tolerant Finite Frequency H∞ Control for Uncertain Mechanical System with Input Delay and Constraint

In this paper, a novel fault‐tolerant finite frequency H_∞ controller (FFHC) is developed for uncertain mechanical system with input delay and constraint. First, the mathematical model of uncertain mechanical system is derived, where the uncertainties occur in mass, damping and stiffness matrices, respectively. Then, in view of the fact that the dominant resonance energies are caused by low‐order vibration modes of mechanical system, the finite frequency control algorithm is investigated to suppress these low‐order resonances peaks. By virtue of Lyapunov‐Krasovskii functional (LKF) and generalized Kalman‐Yakubovich‐Popov (GKYP) lemma, the desirable fault‐tolerant controller can be obtained by convex optimization. Numerical simulations verify the improvements and advantages of proposed cotroller in disturbance rejection when compared with the classic entire frequency H_∞ controller (EFHC).     

Aero‐Engine DCS Fault‐Tolerant Control with Markov Time Delay Based On Augmented Adaptive Sliding Mode Observer

With a focus on aero‐engine distributed control systems (DCSs) with Markov time delay, unknown input disturbance, and sensor and actuator simultaneous faults, a combined fault tolerant algorithm based on the adaptive sliding mode observer is studied. First, an uncertain augmented model of distributed control system is established under the condition of simultaneous sensor and actuator faults, which also considers the influence of the output disturbances. Second, an augmented adaptive sliding mode observer is designed and the linear matrix inequality (LMI) form stability condition of the combined closed‐loop system is deduced. Third, a robust sliding mode fault tolerant controller is designed based on fault estimation of the sliding mode observer, where the theory of predictive control is adopted to suppress the influence of random time delay on system stability. Simulation results indicate that the proposed sliding mode fault tolerant controller can be very effective despite the existence of faults and output disturbances, and is suitable for the simultaneous sensor and actuator faults condition.     

Fault‐Tolerant Stabilization in Discrete‐Time Multiple‐Integrator Networks with General Information Sharing

The paper considers a network of agents with identical discrete‐time multiple‐integrator dynamics. The agents share information according to an arbitrary topology. The information is relative to the states corresponding to some of the highest integration levels. With reference to this setting, a decentralized stabilization problem is faced, under the further assumption that faults may occur in the communication apparatus of one or several of the agents. A necessary and sufficient solvability condition is presented for the problem, together with formulas for a class of least‐order regulators.     

Adaptive Sensor-Fault Tolerant Control of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles With Input Saturation

This paper investigates the tracking control problem for unmanned underwater vehicles(UUVs) systems with sensor faults, input saturation, and external disturbance caused by waves and ocean currents. An active sensor fault-tolerant control scheme is proposed. First, the developed method only requires the inertia matrix of the UUV, without other dynamic information,and can handle both additive and multiplicative sensor faults.Subsequently, an adaptive fault-tolerant controller is designed to achie...     

Decentralized Sliding Mode Control for Multi‐Input Complex Interconnected Systems Subject to non‐smooth Nonlinearities

Many modern control systems become gradually more complicated and, consequently, the approach to control design approaches is both difficulty and complex. Moreover, if such a complex interconnected system is subjected to non‐smooth nonlinearities in the actuator, then unexpected difficulties, degradation or, even worse, instability will arise in the system performance. Therefore, a new decentralized sliding mode control (DSMC) approach for such a class of complex interconnected systems subjected to non‐smooth (deadzone) nonlinearities is proposed in this paper. Based on sliding mode control (SMC) theory, the proposed DSMC laws guarantee the global reaching condition of the sliding mode in uncertain complex interconnected systems with deadzone nonlinearities, that is, they can ensure that the sliding mode is reached in finite time and with prescribed transient behavior. In the sliding mode, the investigated uncertain complex interconnected system with deadzone nonlinearities in the actuator still are insensitive to system uncertainties and external disturbances. The proposed DSMC laws can work effectively for uncertain complex interconnected systems either with or without deadzone nonlinearities in the actuator. However, this cannot be guaranteed by the traditional DSMC design for systems without input deadzone nonlinearities. Furthermore, the sliding motion can be controlled to converge within a specified exponential speed. Finally, two illustrative examples with a series of computer simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed DSMC laws.     

具有饱和输入的线性系统的无源控制

研究了一类具有饱和输入的线性系统的无源控制问题。利用Riccati方程的方法，Lyapunov稳定理论和矩阵理论，给出了一类具有饱和输入的线性系统可无源控制的一个新的充分条件、利用Riccati方程的解，提出了该系统的一种无源控制器的设计方法。该方法设计简单，利于工程的实现，仿真实例说明了其有效性。     

Sliding‐mode fault‐tolerant control using the control allocation scheme

This paper is devoted to the design of a novel fault‐tolerant control (FTC) using the combination of a robust sliding‐mode control (SMC) strategy and a control allocation (CA) algorithm, referred to as a CA‐based sliding‐mode FTC (SMFTC). The proposed SMFTC can also be considered a modular‐design control strategy. In this approach, first, a high‐level SMC, designed without detailed knowledge of systems' actuators/effectors, commands a vector of virtual control signals to meet the overall control objectives. Then, a CA algorithm distributes the virtual control efforts among the healthy actuators/effectors using the real‐time information obtained from a fault detection and reconstruction mechanism. As the underlying system is not assumed to have a rank‐deficient input matrix, the control allocator module is visible to the SMC module resulting in an uncertainty. Hence, the virtual control, in this scheme, is designed to be robust against uncertainties emanating from the visibility of the control allocator to the controller and imperfections in the estimated effectiveness gain. The proposed CA‐based SMFTC scheme is a unified FTC, which does not need to reconfigure the control system in the case of actuator fault or failure. Additionally, to cope with actuator saturation limits, a novel redistributed pseudoinverse‐based CA mechanism is proposed. The effectiveness of the proposed schemes is discussed with a numerical example.     

一类非线性系统的故障重构与容错控制

针对一类满足Lipschitz条件的仿射非线性系统,提出一种执行器故障重构与容错控制方法。通过非奇异变化矩阵对系统进行降阶,设计出滑模故障重构观测器,优化滑模策略,使滑模故障重构观测器渐进估计系统的状态,并给出稳定性分析。运用等价输出控制方法直接获取故障信息,实现执行器故障的检测与重构。设计出主动容错控制器,通过补偿控制,完成执行器故障的容错控制。最后通过数值仿真验证了方法的可行性与有效性。     

A Nonlinear Observer Based Analytical Redundancy for Predictive Fault Tolerant Control of a Steer‐by‐Wire System

In this paper, a nonlinear sliding mode observer, along with a long range linear predictor, is presented for fault tolerant control of a steer by wire system. The long‐range predictor is based on Diophantine identity aimed at improving the fault detection efficiency. The overall predictive fault tolerant control strategy was then implemented and validated on a steer by a wire hardware in loop bench. The experimental results show that the overall robustness of the steer by wire system was not sacrificed through the usage of analytical redundancy for sensors along with the designed fault detection, isolation, and identification algorithm. Moreover, the experimental results indicated that the fault detection speed is improved using the proposed analytical redundancy‐based algorithms for both attenuating and amplifying type faults. The proposed fault detection algorithm was also found to be robust against a wide range of fault types.     

带输入饱和的欠驱动吊车非线性信息融合控制

针对欠驱动吊车系统的控制问题,提出了一种非线性信息融合控制方法. 通过融合二次型性能指标函数中包含的未来参考轨迹和控制能量的软约束信息,以及吊车系统状态方程和输出方程的硬约束信息,获得协状态和控制量的最优估计. 针对控制量输入饱和的问题,提出了一种控制能量软约束信息自适应调节算法,使求出的控制量满足限制要求. 信息融合控制方法基于被控对象的离散模型设计,具有易于实现的特点. 仿真结果表明了该方法的有效性.     

Novel MPC‐Based Fault Tolerant Tracking Control Against Sensor Faults

The problem of active fault‐tolerant tracking control with control input and system output constraints is studied for a class of discrete‐time systems subject to sensor faults. A time‐varying fault‐tolerant observer is first developed to estimate the real system state from the faulty sensor output and control input signals. Then by using the estimated state at each time step, a model predictive control (MPC)‐based fault‐tolerant tracking control scheme is presented to guarantee the desired tracking performance and the given input and output constraints on the faulty system. In comparison with many existing fault‐tolerant MPC methods, its main contribution is that the proposed state estimator is designed by the simple and online numerical computation to tolerate the possible sensor faults, so that the regular MPC algorithm without fault information can be adopted for the online calculation of fault‐tolerant control signal. The potential recursive infeasibility and computational complexity due to the faults are avoided in the scheme. Additionally, the closed‐loop stability of the post‐fault system is discussed. Simulative results of an electric throttle control system verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Fault Diagnosis and Sliding Mode Fault Tolerant Control for Non‐Gaussian Stochastic Distribution Control Systems Using T‐s Fuzzy Model

For the non‐Gaussian stochastic distribution control system using Takagi‐Sugeno fuzzy model, a new fault diagnosis and sliding mode fault tolerant control algorithm is presented. First, a new adaptive fault diagnosis algorithm is adopted to diagnose the fault that occurred in the system, and the observation error system is proven to be uniformly bounded. Second, the sliding mode control algorithm is used to reconfigure the controller, based on the fault estimation information. The post‐fault probability density function can still track the given distribution, leading to fault tolerant control of non‐Gaussian stochastic distribution control systems using Takagi‐Sugeno fuzzy model. Finally, simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.