Actuator fault diagnosis of time-delay systems based on adaptive observer

1 .INTRODUCTIONOwingtotheincreasing demandfor highreliabilityinmany industrial processes , much attention has beenpaid to the problem of fault detection and diagnosis(FDD) in dynamic systems over the past twodecades. Fruitful results can be found in Refs .1 ~3] .It is well known that faults in a dynamic systemcan take many forms . They can be actuator faults ,sensor faults ,unexpected abrupt changes of some pa-rameters or even unexpected structure changes4 ,5].The purpose of detection…

Actuator fault diagnosis of time-delay systems based on adaptive observer

A novel approach for the actuator fault diagnosis of time delay systems is presented by using an adaptive observer technique. Systems without model uncertainty are initially considered, followed by a discussion of a general situation where the system is subjected to either model uncertainty or external disturbance. An adaptive diagnostic algorithm is developed to diagnose the fault, and a modified version is proposed for general system to improve robustness. The selection of the threshold for fault detection is also discussed. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method.