In this paper the problem of active fault tolerant control design for noisy systems described by Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models is studied. The proposed control strategy is based on the known of the fault estimated and the error between the faulty system state and a reference system state. The considered systems are affected by actuator and sensor faults and have the weighting functions depending o...

A general active fault-tolerant control framework is proposed for nonlinear systems with sensor faults. According to their identifiability, all sensor faults are divided into two classes: identifiable faults and non-identifiable faults. In the healthy case, the control objective is such that all outputs converge to their given set-points. A fault detection and isolation module is firstly built,...

(paper pages 133-156) zagros active fold-thrust belt lies on the northern margin of the arabian continental crust it is a young fold-thrust mountain belt currently shortening, thickening and uplifting as a result of the collision of the arabian and iranian plates. rethickening of crust during collisional orogenies could have been carried out by reversal of fault motion along the mesozoic normal...

Abstract We discuss in this paper the possibility of detecting slow slip events (such as silent earthquakes, or earthquake nucleation phases) in the vicinity of geological faults, and the possible localization of those faults from GPS observations. A nonlinear eigenvalue problem (of Steklov type), modeling the slow evolution of the slip is stated as a direct problem. The recovery of an active f...

The criteria for designating an "Active Fault" not only are important for understanding regional tectonics, but also are a paramount issue for assessing the earthquake risk of faults that are near important structures such as nuclear power plants. Here we propose a proxy, based on the preservation of amorphous ultrafine particles, to assess fault activity within the last millennium. X-ray diffr...

[1] The northern Cascadia forearc takes up most of the strain transmitted northward via the Oregon Coast block from the northward-migrating Sierra Nevada block. The north-south contractional strain in the forearc manifests in upper-plate faults active during the Holocene, the northern-most components of which are faults within the Bellingham Basin. The Bellingham Basin is the northern of four b...

Advanced control schemes can be used to optimize energy production and cost of energy in modern wind turbines. These control schemes most often rely on wind speed estimations. These designs of wind speed estimators are, however, not designed to be fault tolerant towards faults in the used sensors. In this paper a fault tolerant wind speed estimator is designed based on a set of unknown input ob...

System verification is often hindered by the absence of formal models. Peled et al. proposed black-box checking as a solution to this problem. This technique applies active automata learning to infer models of systems with unknown internal structure. This kind of learning relies on conformance testing to determine whether a learned model actually represents the considered system. Since conforma...

The detection of active faults around volcanoes is of importance for both seismic and volcanic hazard assessment. The lower flanks of volcanoes are, however, often covered by debris avalanche deposits (DADs) that are highly faulted during transport. Such areas are dissected by faults that delineate deposit hummocks, making it hard to differentiate tectonic from landslide structures. Detailed an...