Integrated design of fault-tolerant control for flight control systems using observer and fuzzy logic

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gulay Unal
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Flight Control ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Fault Tolerant Control ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Fault Isolation ◽  
Flight Control System ◽  
Sensor Fault ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Simulation Results

Purpose Fault detection, isolation and reconfiguration of the flight control system is an important problem to obtain healthy flight. This paper aims to propose an integrated approach for aircraft fault-tolerant control. Design/methodology/approach The integrated structure includes a Kalman filter to obtain without noise, a full order observer for sensor fault detection, a GOS (generalized observer scheme) for sensor fault isolation and a fuzzy controller to reconfigure of the healthy sensor. This combination is simulated using the state space model of a lateral flight control system in case of disturbance and under sensor fault scenario. Findings Using a dedicated observer scheme, the detection and time of sensor fault are correct, but the sensor fault isolation is evaluated incorrectly while the faulty sensor is isolated correctly using GOS. The simulation results show that the suggested approach works affectively for sensor faults with disturbance. Originality/value This paper proposes an integrated approach for aircraft fault-tolerant control. Under this framework, three units are designed, one is Kalman filter for filtering and the other is GOS for sensor fault isolation and another is fuzzy logic for reconfiguration. An integrated approach is sensitive to faults that have disturbances. The simulation results show the proposed integrated approach can be used for any linear system.

Fuzzy robust fault estimation scheme for fault tolerant flight control systems based on unknown input observer

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gulay Unal
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Control System ◽  
Fault Detection ◽  
Flight Control ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Fault Isolation ◽  
Fault Detection And Isolation ◽  
Sensor Faults ◽  
Flight Control System ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The purpose of this study is to present a new integrated structure for a fault tolerant aircraft control system because fault diagnosis of flight control systems is extremely important in obtaining healthy flight. An approach to detect and isolate aircraft sensor faults is proposed, and a new integrated structure for a fault tolerant aircraft control system is presented. Design/methodology/approach As disturbance and sensor faults are mixed together in a flight control system, it is difficult to isolate any fault from the disturbance. This paper proposes a robust unknown input observer for state estimation and fault detection as well as isolation using fuzzy logic. Findings The dedicated observer scheme (DOS) and generalized observer scheme (GOS) are used for fault detection and isolation in an observer-based approach. Using the DOS, it has been shown through simulation that sensor fault detection and isolation can be made, but here the threshold value must be well chosen; if not, the faulty sensor cannot be correctly isolated. On the other hand, the GOS is more usable and flexible than the DOS and allows isolation of faults more correctly and for a fuzzy logic-based controller to be used to realize fault isolation completely. Originality/value The fuzzy logic approach applied to the flight control system adds an important key for sensor fault isolation because it reduces the effect of false alarms and allows the identification of different kinds of sensor faults. The proposed approach can be used for similar systems.

Distributed robust H∞ adaptive fault-tolerant control of amorphous and flat air-to-ground wireless self-organizing network system

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhifang Wang ◽  
Jianguo Yu ◽  
Shangjing Lin ◽  
Junguo Dong ◽  
Zheng Yu
Keyword(s):  
Flight Control ◽  
Control Algorithm ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Fault Tolerant Control ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
External Disturbances ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Actuator Failures ◽  
Wireless Signal

Purpose The paper takes the air-ground integrated wireless ad hoc network-integrated system as the research object, this paper aims to propose a distributed robust H∞ adaptive fault-tolerant control algorithm suitable for the system to distribute to solve the problem of control and communication failure at the same time. Design/methodology/approach In the paper, the authors propose a distributed robust H∞ adaptive fault-tolerant control algorithm suitable for the air-ground integrated wireless ad hoc network-integrated system. Findings The results show that the integrated system has good robustness and fault tolerance performance indicators for flight control and wireless signal transmission when confronted with external disturbances, internal actuator failures and wireless network associated failures and the flight control curve of the quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is generally smooth and stable, even if it encounters external disturbances and actuator failures, its fault tolerance performance is very good. Then in the range of 400–800 m wireless communication distance, the success rate of wireless signal loop transmission is stable at 80%–100% and the performance is at least relatively improved by 158.823%. Originality/value This paper takes the air-ground integrated wireless ad hoc network-integrated system as the research object, based on the robust fault-tolerant control algorithm, the authors propose a distributed robust H∞ adaptive fault-tolerant control algorithm suitable for the system and through the Riccati equation and linear matrix inequation method, the designed distributed robust H∞ adaptive fault-tolerant controller further optimizes the fault suppression factor γ, so as to break through the limitation of only one Lyapunov matrix for different fault modes to distribute to solve the problem of control and communication failure at the same time.

scholarly journals Robust Fault Tolerant Control for a Class of Time-Delay Systems with Multiple Disturbances

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Songyin Cao ◽  
Jianzhong Qiao
Keyword(s):  
Time Delay ◽  
Flight Control ◽  
Disturbance Rejection ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Fault Tolerant Control ◽  
Delay Systems ◽  
Actuator Faults ◽  
Flight Control System ◽  
Multiple Disturbances ◽  
Fault Accommodation

A robust fault tolerant control (FTC) approach is addressed for a class of nonlinear systems with time delay, actuator faults, and multiple disturbances. The first part of the multiple disturbances is supposed to be an uncertain modeled disturbance and the second one represents a norm-bounded variable. First, a composite observer is designed to estimate the uncertain modeled disturbance and actuator fault simultaneously. Then, an FTC strategy consisting of disturbance observer based control (DOBC), fault accommodation, and a mixedH2/H∞controller is constructed to reconfigure the considered systems with disturbance rejection and attenuation performance. Finally, simulations for a flight control system are given to show the efficiency of the proposed approach.

scholarly journals System Control In Fault And Normal Conditions Case Study - Quanser SRV-02

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-138
Author(s):  
Ionut Cristian Resceanu ◽  
Cristina Floriana Resceanu
Keyword(s):  
Fault Tolerance ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Fault Tolerant Control ◽  
Control Law ◽  
System Control ◽  
Sensor Fault ◽  
Simulation Results

Abstract A fault tolerant control method is proposed for Quanser SRV-02 System in order to maintain the required performance in the presence of sensor failures. The proposed approach integrates control law and a sensor fault tolerance schema. Theoretical analysis and simulation results have confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Signal reconstruction and disturbance observer-based fault-tolerant control for civil aircrafts

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinjian Ma ◽  
Shiqian Liu ◽  
Huihui Cheng ◽  
Weizhi Lyu
Keyword(s):  
Flight Control ◽  
Disturbance Observer ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Signal Reconstruction ◽  
Angular Rate ◽  
Sensor Faults ◽  
Sensor Signal ◽  
Sensor Fault ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Civil Aircraft

Purpose This paper aims to focus on the sensor fault-tolerant control (FTC) for civil aircraft under exterior disturbance. Design/methodology/approach First, a three-step cubature Kalman filter (TSCKF) is designed to detect and isolate the sensor fault and to reconstruct the sensor signal. Meanwhile, a nonlinear disturbance observer (NDO) is designed for disturbance estimation. The NDO and the TSCKF are combined together and an NDO-TSCKF is proposed to solve the problem of sensor faults and bounded disturbances simultaneously. Furthermore, an FTC scheme is designed based on the nonlinear dynamic inversion (NDI) and the NDO-TSCKF. Findings The method is verified by a Cessna 172 aircraft model under bias gyro fault and constant angular rate disturbance. The proposed NDO-TSCKF has the ability of signal reconstruction and disturbance estimation. The proposed FTC scheme is also able to solve the sensor fault and disturbance simultaneously. Research limitations/implications NDO-TSCKF is the novel algorithm used in sensor signal reconstruction for aircraft. Then, disturbance observer-based FTC can improve the flight control system performances when the system with faults. Practical implications The NDO-TSCKF-based FTC scheme can be used to solve the sensor fault and exterior disturbance in flight control. For example, the bias gyro fault with constant angular rate disturbance of a civil aircraft is studied. Social implications Signal reconstruction for critical sensor faults and disturbance observer-based FTC for civil aircraft are useful in modern civil aircraft design and development. Originality/value This is the research paper studies on the signal reconstruction and FTC scheme for civil aircraft. The proposed NDO-TSCKF is better than the current reconstruction filter because the failed sensor signal can be reconstructed under disturbances. This control scheme has a better fault-tolerant capability for sensor faults and bounded disturbances than using regular NDI control.

Fault tolerant control against actuator faults based on enhanced PID controller for a quadrotor

2017 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 468-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Ermeydan ◽  
Emre Kiyak
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Flight Control ◽  
Pid Controller ◽  
Controller Design ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Fault Tolerant Control ◽  
Actuator Faults ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Path Control ◽  
The Stability

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present fault tolerant control of a quadrotor based on the enhanced proportional integral derivative (PID) structure in the presence of one or more actuator faults. Design/methodology/approach Mathematical model of the quadrotor is derived by parameter identification of the system for the simulation of the UAV dynamics and flight control in MATLAB/Simulink. An improved PID structure is used to provide the stability of the nonlinear quadcopter system both for attitude and path control of the system. The results of the healty system and the faulty system are given in simulations, together with motor dynamics. Findings In this study, actuator faults are considered to show that a robust controller design handles the loss of effectiveness in motors up to some extent. For the loss of control effectiveness of 20 per cent in first and third motors, psi state follows the reference with steady state error, and it does not go unstable. Motor 1 and Motor 3 respond to given motor fault quickly. When it comes to one actuator fault, steady state errors remain in some states, but the system does not become unstable. Originality/value In this paper, an enhanced PID controller is proposed to keep the quadrotor stable in case of actuator faults. Proposed method demonstrates the effectiveness of the control system against motor faults.

scholarly journals Flight Tests of Autopilot Integrated with Fault-Tolerant Control of a Small Fixed-Wing UAV

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuo Wang ◽  
Ziyang Zhen ◽  
Ju Jiang ◽  
Xinhua Wang
Keyword(s):  
Flight Control ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Fault Tolerant Control ◽  
Flight Test ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Sensor Failure ◽  
Flight Control System ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
Rtk Gps ◽  
Guidance Laws

A fault-tolerant control scheme for the autopilot of the small fixed-wing UAV is designed and tested by the actual flight experiments. The small fixed-wing UAV called Xiang Fei is developed independently by Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The flight control system is designed based on an open-source autopilot (Pixhawk). Real-time kinematic (RTK) GPS is introduced due to its high accuracy. Some modifications on the longitudinal and lateral guidance laws are achieved to improve the flight control performance. Moreover, a data fusion based fault-tolerant control scheme is integrated in altitude control and speed control for altitude sensor failure and airspeed sensor failure, which are the common problems for small fixed-wing UAV. Finally, the real flight experiments are implemented to test the fault-tolerant control based autopilot of UAV. Real flight test results are given and analyzed in detail, which show that the fixed-wing UAV can track the desired altitude and speed commands during the whole flight process including takeoff, climbing, cruising, gliding, landing, and wave-off by the fault-tolerant control based autopilot.

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