Fault tolerance is an obligatory feature in safety critical applications (aeronautical, aerospace, medical and military applications, power plants, etc.), where loss of life, environmental disasters, equipment destructions or unplanned downtimes must be avoided. For such applications, a novel bio-inspired motion control system is proposed. All its three components (the switched reluctance machi...

In this paper the Authors present the design of a high performance transputer based fault-tolerant multiprocessor system for critical applications such as aircraft control, nuclear power station control, satellite applications etc. Fault-tolerant building blocks designed with potential for real time processing. The systematic architecture, regularity and recursiveness enables the system to be m...

In this paper, the problem of guaranteed cost fault-tolerant control for networked control systems (NCSs) is discussed based on Lyapunov stability theory and Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI). The sufficient conditions possessing robust integrity against actuator failures are given by adopting memory state feedback control law, which can meet a cost function for closed-loop networked control syste...

A new Fault Tolerant Controller (FTC) has been presented in this research by integrating a Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) mechanism in a nonlinear model predictive controller framework. The proposed FDD utilizes a Multi-Sensor Data Fusion (MSDF) methodology to enhance its reliability and estimation accuracy. An augmented state-vector model is developed to incorporate the occurred senso...

In this paper, an on-line fault tolerant approach for networked control systems is proposed. The fault tolerant approach incorporates a fault detection and diagnosis methodology based on on-line identification of an ARX model and on neural nonlinear principal components analysis, as well as on neural nonlinear discriminant analysis. When a fault is correctly diagnosed the supervision system rec...

An adaptive robust approach for actuator fault-tolerant control of a class of uncertain nonlinear systems is proposed. The two chief ways in which the system performance can degrade following an actuator-fault are undesirable transients and unacceptably large steady-state tracking errors. Adaptive control based schemes can achieve good final tracking accuracy in spite of change in system parame...

In this paper, fault tolerant compensation for non-linear plants is addressed. Soft fault detection and isolation is performed for a partial sensor fault detection. New method is proposed that combine model predictive controllers with fuzzy Takagi-Sugeno models. An example is presented that illustrates the functionality of the proposed method. Keywords— Fault tolerant control, Fault detection a...