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The prospective work reported in this paper explores a new approach to enhance the performance of an active fault tolerant control system. The proposed technique is based on a modified recovery/trajectory control system in which a reconfigurable reference input is considered when performance degradation occurs in the system due to faults in actuator dynamics. An added value of this work is to reduce the energy spent to achieve the desired closed-loop performance. This work is justified by the need of maintaining a reliable system in a dynamical way in order to achieve a mission by an autonomous system, e.g., a launcher, a satellite, a submarine, etc. The effectiveness is illustrated using a three-tank system for slowly varying reference inputs corrupted by actuators faults.

Actuator Fault Tolerant Control Design Based on a Reconfigurable Reference Input

Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN), Nancy-Université, CNRS, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre Cedex, France

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

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The prospective work reported in this paper explores a new approach to enhance the performance of an active fault tolerant control system. The proposed...

Actuator Fault Tolerant Control Design Based on a Reconfigurable Reference Input

Data publikacji: 30 gru 2008

Zakres stron: 553 - 560

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10006-008-0048-1

Słowa kluczowe
fault tolerant control (FTC), actuator fault accommodation, reconfigurable reference input

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Actuator Fault Tolerant Control Design Based on a Reconfigurable Reference Input

Data publikacji: 30 gru 2008

Zakres stron: 553 - 560

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10006-008-0048-1

Słowa kluczowefault tolerant control (FTC), actuator fault accommodation, reconfigurable reference input

This content is open access.

Słowa kluczowe
fault tolerant control (FTC), actuator fault accommodation, reconfigurable reference input