scholarly journals Adaptive Robust Fault-Tolerant Control Design for Wind Turbines Subject to Pitch Actuator Faults

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1791
Author(s):  
Afef Fekih ◽  
Saleh Mobayen ◽  
Chih-Chiang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Sliding Mode ◽  
Uniform Boundedness ◽  
Fault Tolerant Control ◽  
System Stability ◽  
Actuator Faults ◽  
High Wind ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
Fast Wind

This paper proposes an adaptive fault tolerant control (FTC) design for a variable speed wind turbine (WT) operating in the high wind speeds region. It aims at mitigating pitch actuator faults and regulating the generator power to its rated value, thereby reducing the mechanical stress in the high wind speeds region. The proposed FTC design implements a sliding mode control (SMC) approach with an adaptation law that estimates the upper bounds of the uncertainties. System stability and uniform boundedness of the outputs was proven using the Lyapunov stability theory. The proposed approach was validated on a 5 MW three-blade wind turbine modeled using the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) Fatigue, Aerodynamics, Structures and Turbulence (FAST) wind turbine simulator. The controller’s performance was assessed in the presence of several pitch actuator faults and turbulent wind conditions. Its performance was also compared to that of a standard SMC approach. Mitigation of blade pitch actuator faults, generation of uniform power, smoother pitching actions and reduced chattering compared to standard SMC approach are among the main features of the proposed design.

scholarly journals Backstepping Fault-Tolerant Control for Unmanned Thrust-Vectoring Aircraft Based on Sliding-Mode Observer

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 978-987
Author(s):  
Bingqian Li ◽  
Wenhan Dong ◽  
Xiaoshan Ma
Keyword(s):  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Sliding Mode ◽  
Fault Tolerant Control ◽  
Surface Damage ◽  
Sliding Mode Observer ◽  
Control Surface ◽  
Actuator Faults ◽  
Thrust Vectoring ◽  
Fault Parameters ◽  
Uncertainty Control

In this paper, a backstepping fault-tolerant control based on sliding-mode observer is proposed for the unmanned thrust-vectoring aircraft (UTVA) control. First, the UTVA model with the uncertainty, control surface damage and actuator faults is described, which is divided into fast loop and slow loop. Next, the cascade observers including a high-order SMO and the discontinuous projection adaptive law are proposed to estimate the states with compensating the uncertainty and control surface damage, and the sliding-mode observer is designed to identify actuator faults and estimate fault parameters. Then, the backstepping fault-tolerant control combining the estimation of states and fault parameters is proposed to achieve the global fault-tolerant control, which compensates the uncertainty, control surface damage and actuator faults. Finally, simulation results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness for UTVA.

scholarly journals Active Fault-Tolerant Control of a Quadcopter against Time-Varying Actuator Faults and Saturations Using Sliding Mode Backstepping Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (19) ◽  
pp. 4010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngoc Phi Nguyen ◽  
Sung Kyung Hong
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Active Fault ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Sliding Mode ◽  
Fault Tolerant Control ◽  
Lyapunov Theory ◽  
Fault Estimation ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Actuator Faults ◽  
Active Fault Tolerant Control

Fault-tolerant control is becoming an interesting topic because of its reliability and safety. This paper reports an active fault-tolerant control method for a quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to handle actuator faults, disturbances, and input constraints. A robust fault diagnosis based on the H ∞ scheme was designed to estimate the magnitude of a time-varying fault in the presence of disturbances with unknown upper bounds. Once the fault estimation was complete, a fault-tolerant control scheme was proposed for the attitude system, using adaptive sliding mode backstepping control to accommodate the actuator faults, despite actuator saturation limitation and disturbances. The Lyapunov theory was applied to prove the robustness and stability of the closed-loop system under faulty operation. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the fault diagnosis scheme and proposed controller for handling actuator faults.

Robust attitude fault-tolerant control for unmanned autonomous helicopter with flapping dynamics and actuator faults

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 1266-1277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Yan ◽  
Mou Chen ◽  
Qiangxian Wu ◽  
Ke Lu
Keyword(s):  
Closed Loop ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Fault Tolerant Control ◽  
Loop System ◽  
System Stability ◽  
Actuator Faults ◽  
Closed Loop System ◽  
Attitude Tracking ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
Autonomous Helicopter

In this paper, an adaptive robust fault-tolerant control scheme is developed for attitude tracking control of a medium-scale unmanned autonomous helicopter with rotor flapping dynamics, external unknown disturbances and actuator faults. For the convenience of control design, the actuator dynamics with respect to the tail rotor are introduced. The adaptive fault observer and robust item are employed to observe the actuator faults and eliminate the effect of external disturbances, respectively. A backstepping-based robust fault-tolerant control scheme is designed with the aim of obtaining satisfactory tracking performance and closed-loop system stability is proved via Lyapunov analysis, which guarantees the convergence of all closed-loop system signals. Simulation results are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed control method.

scholarly journals Active Fault-Tolerant Control for Wind Turbine with Simultaneous Actuator and Sensor Faults

Complexity ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Wang ◽  
Ming Cai ◽  
Hu Zhang ◽  
Fuad Alsaadi ◽  
Liu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
State Vector ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Sliding Mode ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Fault Tolerant Control ◽  
Descriptor System ◽  
Fault Estimation ◽  
Sensor Faults ◽  
Set Up

The purpose of this paper is to show a novel fault-tolerant tracking control (FTC) strategy with robust fault estimation and compensating for simultaneous actuator sensor faults. Based on the framework of fault-tolerant control, developing an FTC design method for wind turbines is a challenge and, thus, they can tolerate simultaneous pitch actuator and pitch sensor faults having bounded first time derivatives. The paper’s key contribution is proposing a descriptor sliding mode method, in which for establishing a novel augmented descriptor system, with which we can estimate the state of system and reconstruct fault by designing descriptor sliding mode observer, the paper introduces an auxiliary descriptor state vector composed by a system state vector, actuator fault vector, and sensor fault vector. By the optimized method of LMI, the conditions for stability that estimated error dynamics are set up to promote the determination of the parameters designed. With this estimation, and designing a fault-tolerant controller, the system’s stability can be maintained. The effectiveness of the design strategy is verified by implementing the controller in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s 5-MW nonlinear, high-fidelity wind turbine model (FAST) and simulating it in MATLAB/Simulink.

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