Reachable set estimation for switched nonlinear positive systems with impulse and time delay

This paper deals with the reachable set estimation for the continuous‐time switched nonlinear positive systems with impulse, disturbance, and mixed time‐varying delays under the average dwell time switching. Based on a method developed in positive systems, sufficient conditions are established such that all solutions of the system converge exponentially to a ball. Both the bound of the reachable set and the convergence rate are determined explicitly. Compared with the existing result, the average dwell time given in this paper is less conservative. Finally, numerical examples demonstrate the effectiveness of our results.     

切换线性时滞系统的稳定性判据

考虑了一类切换线性时滞系统的稳定性问题.基于Lyapunov函数方法和矩阵测度的概念,分别给出了切换系统时滞独立以及时滞依赖的渐近稳定性和指数稳定性判据,设计了相应的镇定切换律.最后,通过数值算例验证了所提算法的正确有效性.     

Active fault tolerant control for switched positive linear systems

The main aim of this paper is to design an active fault tolerant controller for switched positive linear systems. A theorem is proved for fault and state estimation of switched positive linear systems in terms of matrix inequality by considering average dwell‐time approach. By utilizing the theorem results, not only a fast and exact estimation of fault and state is obtained but also the positivity of state estimation is ensured. The feasibility problem is solved by formulating it into a special sequential optimization problem subject to LMI constraints. Based on the fault estimation information, an observer‐based fault tolerant control guaranties the stability and positivity of the closed‐loop system. Finally, a practical example including a data communication network is presented to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method.     

State and fault estimation of sandwich systems with hysteresis

In this paper, a switched proportional integral observer (PIO) is designed for estimating the states and fault of sandwich systems with hysteresis. In the system, the actuator fault and sensor noise have been included simultaneously. The switched PIO contains a changeable transition matrix and a switched item, which can switch according to different working points of the hysteresis. The estimation errors of the states and fault are analyzed, and a theorem is given to illustrate the estimation errors of the states and fault, which are both bounded. The problem of selecting an appropriate feedback matrix of the switched PIO has been translated into an optimization problem with feedback matrix tuning. The effectiveness of the switched PIO has been testified in the simulation with a real application case. Moreover, to show the good performance of the switched PIO, a conventional PIO is proposed and compared in the simulation. The results show that the switched PIO is superior to the conventional one.     

Fault estimator design for a class of switched systems with time-varying delay

This article studies the problem of fault estimator design for switched time-delay systems with impulsive control. The delay signal is assumed to be uniformly bounded, differentiable and has a bounded derivative. The problem is first formulated in the framework of H _∞ filtering by incorporating a priori knowledge of the fault into the design procedure. A hybrid controller, composed of a fault estimator and an impulsive controller, is constructed. Some delay-dependent sufficient conditions are derived on the existence of the hybrid controller by using the multiple Lyapunov functional approach. In addition, based on the cone complementarity algorithm, the solutions to the parameter matrices are obtained by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

A fault tolerant control framework for periodic switched non-linear systems

An observer-based fault tolerant control (FTC) framework is proposed for a class of periodic switched non-linear systems (PSNS) without full state measurements. Two kinds of faults are considered: continuous faults that affect each mode during its dwell period; and discrete faults that affect the switching sequence. Under the average dwell time scheme, the proposed FTC framework can maintain the stability of overall PSNS in spite of these two kinds of fault. A switched reluctance motor example is taken to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method.     

Interval estimation and fault detection for switched nonlinear systems based on zonotope method

This paper investigates the state interval estimation and fault detection (FD) problems for a Lipschitz nonlinear switched system based on the combination of the $H_{\infty }$ observer and the zonotope method. To begin with, an $H_{\infty }$ observer that is robust to the disturbance is designed, and the stability of the observer error dynamic system is analyzed under the average dwell time (ADT) concept. After this, the zonotope theory is applied on the $H_{\infty }$ observer error dynamic system such that the interval state estimation can be calculated iteratively when the system suffers from no fault. Furthermore, for FD purpose, a residual is constructed based on the $H_{\infty }$ observer. Because the constructed residual contains disturbance, it cannot be used for FD directly. To overcome this drawback, the interval estimation method of the residual is proposed by using the zonotope method, and a residual-based FD scheme is developed. Finally, a simulation example is given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Fault estimation for discrete‐time switched nonlinear systems with discrete and distributed delays

This paper is concerned with the fault estimation for a class of discrete‐time switched nonlinear systems with mixed time delays. The fault existing in the system is assumed to be characterized by an external system, which incorporates the fault's prior knowledge to the considered systems. The fault estimator is designed by using the multiple Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional and average dwell‐time approach. Sufficient conditions in the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) are developed to ensure the resulting error system is exponentially stable with an optimized disturbance attenuation level. The gain matrices of the estimator can be easily determined by using the standard optimization toolboxes. Finally, numerical examples and simulation results with the help of real‐time systems are given to illustrate the effectiveness and advantages of the obtained results. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

不确定切换时滞非线性系统状态切换的指数稳定性

利用状态依赖控制策略对切换信号进行设计,使得一类参数不确定时滞非线性切换系统指数稳定且具有一定的??∞抗干扰性能。利用Lyapunov-Krasovskii (LK)函数方法,以线性矩阵不等式组的方式,给出了稳定切换律存在的充分条件,并且该系统是指数稳定的。通过引入自由矩阵并结合积分不等式技巧,得到了保守性较低的稳定性条件。仿真算例表明了所提出方法的有效性和较低的保守性。     

Reachable set estimation for discrete‐time switched system with application to time‐delay system

This paper addresses the problem of reachable set estimation and synthesis for a class of discrete‐time switched linear systems with time delay and bounded peak disturbance. Combined with the feature of mode‐dependent average dwell time switching, a new algorithm is developed to estimate the reachable set of switched system, which is both quasi‐time‐dependent and mode‐dependent. Then, the proposed method is applied to time‐delay system and a sufficient condition is presented to guarantee the asymptotic stability and estimate the bounding ellipsoid. Furthermore, the quasi‐time‐dependent controller is designed to stabilize the system and restrict the closed‐loop system states to an ellipsoidal bound. Examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness and advantages of the obtained theorems.     

Fast adaptive fault estimation and accommodation for nonlinear time‐varying delay systems

This paper studies the problem of fault estimation and accommodation for a class of nonlinear time‐varying delay systems using adaptive fault diagnosis observer (AFDO). A novel fast adaptive fault estimation algorithm that does not need the derivative of the output vector is proposed to enhance the performance of fault estimation. Meanwhile, a delay‐dependent criteria is obtained based on free weighting matrix method with the purpose of reducing the conservatism of the AFDO design. On the basis of fault estimation, an observer‐based fault‐tolerant controller is designed to guarantee the stability of the closed‐loop system. In terms of matrix inequality, we derive sufficient conditions for the existence of the adaptive observer and fault‐tolerant controller. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

Simultaneous fault detection and control for switched systems with actuator faults

This paper is concerned with the fault detection and control problem for discrete-time switched systems. The actuator faults, especially ‘outage cases’, are considered. The detector/controller is designed simultaneously such that the closed-loop system switches under an average dwell time, and when a fault is detected, an alarm is generated and then the controller is switched to allow the norm of the states of the subsystem to increase within the acceptable limits. Thus, a switching strategy which combines average dwell time switching with event-driven switching is proposed. Under this switching strategy, the attention is focused on designing the detector/controller such that estimation errors between residual signals and faults are minimised for the fulfillment of fault detection objectives; simultaneously, the closed-loop system becomes asymptotically stable for the fulfillment of control objectives. A two-step procedure is adopted to obtain the solutions through satisfying a set of linear matrix inequalities. An example comprising of three cases is considered. Through these cases, it is demonstrated that the fault detection and control for switched systems using a two-stage switching strategy and asynchronous switching are feasible.     

An output delay approach to fault estimation for sampled-data systems

The problem of fault estimation for a class of non-uniformly sampled-data systems is investigated from the time delay point of view in this paper.Firstly,the output delay approach is employed to model the sampled-data system as a continuous-time one with time-varying delay output.Then,based on the analysis of the inapplicability of the adaptive fault diagnosis observer in such class of time-delay systems,a novel augmented fault estimation observer design method is proposed to guarantee the exponential convergence of the estimation errors.Furthermore,an extension to the case of time varying fault estimation for the noisy sampled-data systems is studied.Finally,simulation results of a flight control system are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Simultaneous reduced-order control and fault detection for discrete-time switched systems with relaxed persistent dwell time regularity

This paper focuses on the problem of simultaneous control and fault detection (FD) for discrete-time switched systems. The main goal is to develop a control/detection unit (CDU) associated with a switching law to control the system and detect faults simultaneously. When the switched systems are with partial measurable states, we directly use these states to construct partial control and FD signals. Next, the reduced-order CDU is designed to generate the other control and FD signals. Compared with existing results based on full-order CDU, the proposed results lead to less conservatism and reduce design complexity. The switching law is constructed in the frame of persistent dwell time (PDT) switching. A novel switching number constraint condition is introduced, which further relaxes the restrictions on the dwell time of switching processes of PDT. The less restriction on dwell time degrades the performance requirement of each subsystem and upgrades the degree of freedom for switching law design. Based on the proposed results, a class of nonweighted performance indexes is introduced to characterize the fault sensitivity and robustness. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is illustrated by an example.     

Reachable set estimation for switched positive systems

This paper focuses on the problem of reachable set estimation for discrete-time switched positive systems under two possible classes of exogenous disturbance. The multiple linear copositive Lyapunov function approach is applied to determine the bounding hyper-pyramids for the reachable set. Based on some Lyapunov-based inequalities and the linear version of the S-procedure technique, the bounding hyper-pyramids for the reachable set can be determined by solving a set of inequalities. Two optimisation methods are adopted to make the bounding hyper-pyramids as small as possible. Genetic Algorithm (GA) is utilised to search for the optimal value of the decision variables in the obtained inequalities. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical findings.     

Adaptive robust actuator fault compensation for linear systems using a novel fault estimation mechanism

This paper investigates the problem of adaptive fault‐tolerant control for a class of linear systems with time‐varying actuator faults. The outage and loss‐of‐effectiveness fault cases are covered. An active fault compensation control law was designed in two steps. Firstly, the time‐varying fault parameters were estimated based on a novel adaptive observer. Compared with the traditional adaptive observer, the actuator fault estimations are faster and the high‐frequency oscillations can be attenuated effectively. Such oscillations are usually caused by increasing the gains of adaptive laws to deal with abrupt changes in system dynamics. Then, based on online estimations of the fault parameters, an adaptive fault‐tolerant controller was constructed to compensate for the loss of actuator effectiveness and to eliminate the effect of fault estimation error. The asymptotic stability and an adaptive performance of a closed‐loop system can be guaranteed, even in the case of actuator faults and disturbances. Simulation results are given to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Fault detection for switched nonlinear systems under asynchronous switching

Asynchronous switching between switched system and associated filter or controller frequently occurs in several applications. In this article, the fault detection problem for a class of switched nonlinear systems with asynchronous switching is addressed. To model the switched system behaviour under asynchronous switching, two working modes are adopted to facilitate the studies on the issue. Then, based on average dwell time approach, a fault detection filter is developed via solving LMIs. Furthermore, it is proved that the fault detection problem under synchronous switching is only a particular case of our results for asynchronous switching. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of proposed results.     

切换系统的同时故障估计与容错控制

当切换系统发生故障时,通常需要依次进行故障诊断和容错控制.为了提高切换系统故障诊断的可靠性和容错控制的及时性,本文提出一种同时故障估计与容错控制方法.针对满足平均驻留时间约束的线性切换系统,首先建立了基于状态观测器的同时故障估计与容错控制器,并将其设计问题转化为了加权H∞性能指标下增广误差系统的多目标求解问题.然后使用平均驻留时间技术和多Lyapunov函数方法设计了故障估计与容错控制器的参数,又通过松弛矩阵方法进一步得到了保守性较低的结果.最后,利用一个例子对本文所提方法进行了仿真,证实了该方法的有效性.