An integrated design approach for fault-tolerant control of switched LPV systems with actuator faults

In this article, the active fault-tolerant control (FTC) issue is addressed for switched linear parameter varying (LPV) systems in the discrete-time domain. A general dwell-time property is considered in the system setup to govern the switching dynamics between subsystems, and the parameter variations within each subsystem are subjected to the polytopic uncertainties. The main innovation of the developed active FTC approach is to effectively cope with switched LPV models where both input and output matrices can be of parameter-dependent form. By virtue of a novel Lyapunov function approach depending on both dwell time and parameter variations, the joint task for fault detection, estimation, and compensation is fulfilled via an integrated design scheme. The input-to-state stability (ISS) conditions are obtained for the augmented faulty system satisfying a given ISS-gain performance requirement. The desired effect of active FTC is achieved in three critical steps: 1) construct a fault detection filter in terms of the H∞ norm; 2) design an observer-based estimator to estimate the system states and faults simultaneously; and 3) synthesize a fault-tolerant controller with the LPV structure using the estimated states and faults for fault compensation. Finally, an application example is utilized to illustrate the efficiency and availability of the proposed control approach.