A fault tolerant control allocation scheme with output integral sliding modes

  • Authors:
  • M. T. Hamayun;C. Edwards;H. Alwi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper a new fault tolerant control scheme is proposed, where only measured system outputs are assumed to be available. The scheme ensures closed-loop stability throughout the entire closed-loop response of the system even in the presence of certain actuator faults/failures. This is accomplished by incorporating ideas of integral sliding modes, unknown input observers and a fixed control allocation scheme. A rigorous closed-loop stability analysis is undertaken, and in fact a convex representation of the problem is created in order to synthesize the controller and observer gains. The efficacy of the proposed scheme is tested by applying it to a benchmark civil aircraft model.