Robust Mpc for Actuator–Fault Tolerance Using Set–Based Passive Fault Detection and Active Fault Isolation

• Main Authors: Xu Feng, Puig Vicenç, Ocampo-Martinez Carlos, Olaru Sorin, Niculescu Silviu-Iulian
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2017-03-01
• Series: International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
• Subjects: fault detection; fault isolation; set-theoretic method; fault-tolerant control; model predictive control
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/amcs-2017-0004

In this paper, a fault-tolerant control (FTC) scheme is proposed for actuator faults, which is built upon tube-based model predictive control (MPC) as well as set-based fault detection and isolation (FDI). In the class of MPC techniques, tubebased MPC can effectively deal with system constraints and uncertainties with relatively low computational complexity compared with other robust MPC techniques such as min-max MPC. Set-based FDI, generally considering the worst case of uncertainties, can robustly detect and isolate actuator faults. In the proposed FTC scheme, fault detection (FD) is passive by using invariant sets, while fault isolation (FI) is active by means of MPC and tubes. The active FI method proposed in this paper is implemented by making use of the constraint-handling ability of MPC to manipulate the bounds of inputs.