Tian Zuo-hua

Robust fault diagnosis for linear time-delay systems with uncertainty

This paper deals with the problem of fault diagnosis problem for a class of linear systems with delayed state and uncertainty. The systems are transformed into two different subsystems. One is not affected by actuator faults so that a robust observer can be designed under certain conditions. The other whose states can be measured is affected by the faults. The proposed observer is utilized in an analytical-redundancy-based approach for actuator and sensor fault detection and diagnosis in time-delay systems. Finally, the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed method is illustrated through numerical examples.

Design of H∞ robust fault detection filter for nonlinear time-delay systems

In this paper, the robust fault detection filter (RFDF) design problems are studied for nonlinear time-delay systems with unknown inputs. First, a reference residual model is introduced to formulate the RFDF design problem as an H∞ model-matching problem. Then appropriate input/output selection matrices are introduced to extend a performance index to the time-delay systems in time domain. The reference residual model designed according to the performance index is an optimal residual generator, which takes into account the robustness against disturbances and sensitivity to faults simultaneously. Applying robust H∞ optimization control technique, the existence conditions of the RFDF for nonlinear time-delay systems with unknown inputs are presented in terms of linear matrix inequality (LMI) formulation, independently of time delay. An illustrative design example is used to demonstrate the validity and applicability of the proposed approach.

An Active Fault Tolerant Controller Design Method for Time-delay Systems

In this paper, we propose an active fault tolerant control (FTC) design method for time-delay systems. Based on generalized internal model control (GIMC), the feedback controller architecture includes two parts: one part for performance and the other part for robustness. The feedback control system will be solely controlled by the performance controller when there is no fault and the robustification controller will be active when there are faults.