In this note, a fault-tolerant control strategy is proposed from a robust control perspective by applying the recently introduced GIMC (Generalized Internal Mode Control) architecture. This fault-tolerant control design consists of two parts: a nominal performance controller and a robustness controller, and works in such way that when a sensor failure is detected, the controller structure is re...

In this paper, a robust fault-tolerant control strategy for constrained multisensor linear systems, subject to sensor faults and in the presence of bounded state and output disturbances, is proposed. The scheme verifies that, for each sensors–estimator combination, suitable residual variables lie inside pre-computed sets and selects a more appropriate combination based on a chosen criterion. An...

This paper aims at the blade root moment sensor fault detection and isolation issue. The underlying problem is crucial to the successful application of the individual pitch control system which plays a key role for reducing the blade loads of large offshore wind turbines. In this paper, a wind turbine model is built based on the closed loop identification technique, where the wind dynamics is i...

The main contribution of this paper is the development of fault tolerant control for a wind energy conversion system (WECS) based on the stochastic piecewise affine (PWA) model. In this paper the normal and fault stochastic PWA models for WECS including multiple working points at different wind speeds are established. A reliable piecewise linear quadratic regulator state feedback is designed fo...

An integrated fault diagnosis based fault tolerant longitudinal control system architecture is proposed for civil aircraft which can accommodate partial or total losses of angle of attack and/or calibrated airspeed sensors. A triplex sensor redundancy is assumed for the normal operation of the aircraft using a gain scheduled longitudinal normal control law. The fault isolation functionality is ...

In this paper, an optimal redundant instrumentation sensor network design methodology is presented for complex chemical process plants using a combinatorial particle swarm optimization search (CPSO) engine. The approach, which is more flexible and general in comparison with previous works, aims to minimize cost as a main design factor, similar to the usual trend in the literature. Besides, it c...

A sensor network can be described as a collection of sensor nodes which co-ordinate with each other to perform some specific function. These sensor nodes are mainly in large numbers and are densely deployed either inside the phenomenon or very close to it. They can be used for various application areas (e.g. health, military, home). Failures are inevitable in wireless sensor networks due to inh...

This paper presents some approaches on the new applications in fault estimation, detection and diagnosis emerged from three powerful concepts: theory of distributed parameter systems, applied to large and complex physical processes, artificial intelligence, with its tool adaptive-network-based fuzzy inference and the intelligent wireless ad-hoc sensor networks. Sensor networks have large and su...

This paper presents the results of a study on fault-tolerant control of a ship propulsion benchmark [Izadi-Zamanabadi, R., & Blanke, M. (1999). A ship propulsion system as a benchmark for fault tolerant control. Control Engineering Practice, 7 (2), 227–239] which uses estimated or virtual measurements as feedback variables. The estimator operates on a self-adjustable design model so that its ou...

This paper investigates the problem of robust fault detection observer design for nonlinear Takagi–Sugeno models with unmeasurable premise variables subject to sensor faults and unknown bounded disturbance. The main idea is to synthesize a robust fault detection observer by means of a mixed H =H1 performance index. The considered observer is used to estimate jointly states and faults. Using the...