Fault-Tolerant Supervisory Control

Enhanced distinguishability in Supervisory Fault Tolerant Control

This paper deals with the design of an estimator-based supervisory Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) scheme for Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems. A formal stability proof based on dwell-time conditions is presented when the state of the detection filter does not correspond to the plant state, as in classical (Luenberger) observer-based approaches. In this context, fault isolability could be impro...

Fault-tolerant supervisory control of discrete-event systems

Supervisory fault tolerant control with integrated fault detection and isolation: A switched system approach

This paper focuses on supervisory fault tolerant control design for a class of systems with faults ranging over a finite cover. The proposed framework is based on a switched system approach, and relies on a supervisory switching within a family of pre-computed candidate controllers without individual fault detection and isolation schemes. Each fault set can be accommodated either by one candida...

Fault-Tolerant Control of a Nonlinear Process with Input Constraints

A Fault-Tolerant Control (FTC) methodology has been presented for nonlinear processes being imposed by control input constraints. The proposed methodology uses a combination of Feedback Linearization and Model Predictive Control (FLMPC) schemes. The resulting constraints in the transformed process will be dependent on the actual evolving states, making their incorporation in the de...

Bounded sensor failure tolerant supervisory control

This paper discusses problems related to partial observation supervisory controllers with possibly faulty sensors in the framework of discrete-event systems. At initialization all controller sensors are operational such that all sensors correctly communicate their event observations to the controller. Sensor failures are unobservable. After a sensor fails, it sends no signals to the controller....