A New Active Fault Tolerant Control System: Predictive Online Fault Estimation

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Authors/Editors

WUDHICHAI ASSAWINCHAICHOTE

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Publication Details

Author list: Bavili R.E., Mohammadzadeh A., Tavoosi J., Mobayen S., Assawinchaichote W., Asad J.H., Mosavi A.H.

Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Publication year: 2021

Volume number: 9

Start page: 118461

End page: 118471

Number of pages: 11

ISSN: 2169-3536

eISSN: 2169-3536

URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85113847811&doi=10.1109%2fACCESS.2021.3107282&partnerID=40&md5=23067ea6f42232881e8ffd4138b951e8

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Abstract

This study presents a new approach for active fault-tolerant controller (FTC) design for constrained nonlinear multi-variable systems. The proposed approach utilize the nonlinear model predictive controller (NMPC) and fault estimation method which is on basis of extended kalman filters (EKFs). The deficiency of actuators and sensors and also the plant states measurement errors are estimated by the suggested approach. A supervisor unit using the fault information and fault modeling per sampling time, corrects the predictor model of the controller and compensates actuator and sensor faults in control system. Furthermore, by the presented feedback compensation, the robustness of the designed method against plant faults and uncertainties is ensured. The important advantages of the proposed method are: (1) The suggested FTC scheme based on NMPC leads to calculate more accurate control action than MPC in nonlinear processes, (2) it is comprehensive in fault accommodation point of view because it is able to compensate all types of faults in control systems simultaneously, (3) it has low computational cost because of using NMPC by analytical solution, (4) it can handle control and states constraints to prevent of actuator saturations and unsafe situations, (5) the simplicity and effectiveness of the designed FTC scheme for real applications is more significant. Simulation results on continuous stirred tank reactor process verifies the superiority and capability of the designed approach. © 2013 IEEE.

Keywords

fault modeling, Fault-tolerant controller, predictive control method