A new fault tolerant control system based on adaptive unscented Kalman filter and fuzzy decision making approach

Author(s):  
Karim Salahshoo ◽  
Amin Mirzaee
Author(s):  
Mehmet Gokberk Patan ◽  
Fikret Caliskan

This article handles the issue of fault-tolerant control of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the existence of sensor faults. A general non-linear model of the quadrotor is presented. Several non-linear Kalman filters namely, the extended Kalman filter, the unscented Kalman filter and the cubature Kalman filter (CKF) are utilized to estimate the states of the quadrotor and to compare the estimation performances. Some flight scenarios are simulated, and the simulation results show that the CKF has the smallest estimation error as expected in theory. Control of the quadrotor heavily depends on the measured values received from sensors. Therefore, the control system requires fault-free sensors. However, small quadrotors and UAVs are mostly equipped with low-cost and low-quality sensors, and hence, they may fail to indicate correct measurement values. If the sensors are faulty, then the control system itself should be actively tolerant to sensor faults. Measurements of these kinds of sensors suffer from bias and external noise due to temperature variations, vibration and other external conditions. Since the bias is one of the very common faults in these sensors, a sensor bias is taken into consideration as a fault and occurs abruptly at a certain time and continues throughout the considered scenarios. By using the residual signals generated by the non-linear filters, sensor faults are detected and isolated. Then, two different methods are proposed for removing the effects of faults and achieving active fault–tolerant control. The effectiveness of the presented two techniques is shown in the simulations.


Author(s):  
Amin Mirzaee ◽  
Karim Salahshoor

Gas turbines are generally used in power generation, the oil and gas industries, and as jet engines in aircrafts. Fault tolerance and reliability is important in such applications. Thus, accurate modeling and control system design is necessary. In this paper, first a nonlinear hybrid fuzzy model was developed for an industrial gas turbine, and then this model was used as the core of a fault tolerant control (FTC) system. The aforementioned model was trained by use of three months of operational data of a GE MS 5002 D gas turbine that is used for gas injection application, then it was fine tuned using expert knowledge and physical principles. A graphical user interface (GUI) was also developed to run various realistic operational scenarios of the gas turbine. The main point of the present work consists in introducing nonlinear fuzzy model schemes as the core of an adaptive unscented Kalman filter (AUKF) for fault diagnostic purposes. Analysis of the simulation results discloses that this FTC approach alleviates the effects of faults in two different scenarios such as sequential drift and bias in sensors/actuators and also in simultaneous faults that are a disastrous situation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 262-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yashar Shabbouei Hagh ◽  
Reza Mohammadi Asl ◽  
Vincent Cocquempot

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