Distributed Fault Detection of Nonlinear Process Systems with Senor Failures

Abstract

A distributed fault detection scheme is presented in this work to deal with the senor failures in a nonlinear process system. Firstly, a residual generator is derived, in which the fault signal is generated by introducing a residual signal. Then, a distributed extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is designed to estimate the unmeasurable system states. Finally, the proposed distributed EKF is used for the fault detection and isolation in a distributed framework. By applying the distributed fault detection scheme to a completely stirred tank reactor process, it is shown that the proposed scheme has ability to monitor the sensor faults automatically.