Simultaneous actuator and sensor fault reconstruction of singular delayed linear parameter varying systems in the presence of unknown time varying delays and inexact parameters

Abstract

SummaryIn this article, robust fault diagnosis of a class of singular delayed linear parameter varying systems is considered. The considered system has delayed dynamics with unknown time varying delays and also it is affected by noise, disturbance and faults in both actuators and sensors. Moreover, in addition to the aforementioned unknown inputs and uncertainty, another source of uncertainty related to inexact measures of the scheduling parameters is present in the system. Making use of the descriptor system approach, sensor faults in the system are added as additional states into the original state vector to obtain an augmented system. Then, by designing a suitable proportional double integral unknown input observer (PDIUIO), the states, actuator, and sensor faults are estimated. The uncertainty due to the mismatch between the inexact parameters that schedule the observer and the real parameters that schedule the original system is formulated with an uncertain system approach. In the PDIUIO, the uncertainty induced by unknown inputs (disturbance, noise and actuator, and sensor faults), unknown delays, and inexact parameter measures are attenuated in H∞ sense with different weights. The constraints regarding the existence and the robust stability of the designed PDIUIO are formulated using linear matrix inequalities. The efficiency of the proposed method is verified using an application example based on an electrical circuit.