This paper presents an analytical, numerical and experimental study of an asymmetric piezoelectric actuator/sensor cantilever beam. The structure consists in a three-layered laminate with a piezoceramic acting as actuator, an elastic material layer and a second piezoceramic layer that can operate as a sensor or actuator. The coupled expansion-bending motion of the system is analytically resolve...

Abstract: This paper introduces model-based Plug and Play Process Control, a novel concept for process control, which allows a model-based control system to be reconfigured when a sensor or an actuator is plugged into a controlled process. The work reported in this paper focuses on composing a monolithic model from models of a process to be controlled and the actuators and sensors connected to ...

Abstract: We consider the problem of designing residual generators with least dynamical orders to solve actuator fault detection and isolation problems for a generic large transport aircraft. The main result of our analysis is the proof of feasibility of the complete isolation of all primary actuator/surface faults in the nominal case by using a minimal number of additional surface angle sensor...

Robust ∞ H fault-tolerant control against actuator and sensor failures for a class of uncertain descriptor systems via dynamical compensators is investigated. Based on ∞ H theory in descriptor systems, a method of designing dynamical compensators is presented. The dynamical compensator guarantees that the resultant closed-loop system is regular, impulse-free and stable, furthermore, it maintain...

The paper focuses on the generation of residuals using nonlinear analytical redundancy relations for sensor and actuator faults detection and isolation of air supply system of fuel cell. The state equation model of the air supply system which is based on volumetric air compressor is reduced from 4 orders to 3 orders. Then, analytical residuals are generated by nonlinear analytical redundancy re...

Sensor-actuator networks are increasingly being used in distributed control of large scale systems. Often these applications are mission-critical and are required to maintain satisfactory performance in the presence of component failures. On the one hand, sensor-actuator network components are becoming inexpensive but they also tend to be unreliable, especially when deployed in harsh or unpredi...

This paper proposes an efficient implementation of scalable and flexible street lighting control in urban environments. The purpose is to decrease the overall energy consumption without affecting safety. In a hierarchical three-level control strategy based on qualitative processing, the lower level is represented by wireless sensor-actuator network clusters that control individual street lamps,...

For a typical MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) nonlinear dynamic system, fault detection and isolation usually aim at process faults with an assumption that actuator faults and sensor faults do not occur at the same time, which is not always the case. This paper uses Extended State Observer for real-time process fault detection and fuzzy inference for fault isolation. It then investigates ...

The behavior of an exponentially graded hybrid cylindrical shell subjected to an axisymmetric thermo-electro-mechanical loading placed in a constant magnetic field is investigated. The hybrid shell is consisted of a functionally graded host layer  embedded with pyroelectric layers as sensor and/or actuator  that can be imperfectly bonded to the inner and the outer surfaces of a shell. The shell...