This paper considers fault estimation in nonlinear fractional order systems in observer form. For this aim, a step by step second order sliding mode observer is used. By means of a fractional inequality, the stability of the observer estimation errors is analyzed and some conditions are introduced to guarantee finite time convergence of estimation errors. Finally, in a numerical example, effect...

The performance of ad hoc routing protocols will significantly degrade, if there are malfunctioned nodes in the network. Fault tolerant routing protocols address this problem by exploring the network redundancy through multipath routing. Designing an effective and efficient fault tolerant routing protocol is inherently hard, because the problem is NP-complete and the precise path information is...

In this paper, a non-dominated sorting based multi objective EA (MOEA), called Elitist non dominated sorting genetic algorithm (Elitist NSGA) has been presented for solving the fault section estimation problem in automated distribution systems, which alleviates the difficulties associated with conventional techniques of fault section estimation. Due to the presence of various conflicting object...

This paper addresses the problem of detecting, discriminating, and reconstructing sensor faults for nonlinear systems with known model structure but uncertainty in the parameters of the process. The convenience of the proposed technique lies in the fact that historical operational data and/or a priori fault information is not required to achieve accurate fault reconstruction except for fixed, s...

This paper addresses the problem of fault diagnosis in a robotic manipulator designed for human interaction. Faults in the external force sensor are addressed with a constant or slowly time-varying profile. A model-based strategy is considered that takes into account uncertainty in the mathematical representation, where a proportional-integral (PI) observer is in charge of estimating the fault ...

This work studies the problem of fault estimation using a fast adaptive fault diagnosis observer. The estimator bloc considered for this purpose is an Unknown Input Observer (UIO) which is subsequently used for a robust fault detection scheme and also as an adaptive detection design for an additive actuator fault. Stability of the adaptive estimation is provided by a Lyapunov function ending wi...

In this work we study a new approach of fault tolerant control schema.The suggested strategy is an active Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) strategy that reconfigures the controller on-line taking into account changes due to the faults where both the block of fault detection and the block of the controller are formulated as a Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) problem. The problem of fault estimation is...

This paper investigates and compares the effects of dynamic fault impendence variation on the accuracy of estimating location of faults on series compensated transmission lines, using a novel fault location algorithm based on the measurement of instantaneous signals, derived from both ends of high voltage transmission lines. In order to estimate fault location accurately, it is necessary to com...