Actuator Fault Detection and Fault Tolerant Control of a Nonlinear System Using Sliding Mode Observer

In this work, we use the Fault detection and isolation and the Fault tolerant control based on sliding mode observer in order to introduce the well diagnosis of a nonlinear system. The robustness of the proposed observer for the two techniques is tested through a physical example. The results in this paper show the interaction between the Fault tolerant control and the Diagnosis procedure.

Authors:

• R. Loukil
• M. Chtourou
• T. Damak

Keywords:

• Fault detection and isolation “FDI”
• Fault tolerant control “FTC”
• sliding mode observer
• nonlinear system
• robustness
• stability.

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