Hybrid fault diagnosis for telerobotics system

Abstract Fault detection and isolation ( FDI ) of a class of networked control systems ( NCS ), applied for telerobotics system is studied in this paper. The considered NCS application is related to telerobotics system, where it is modelled with a hybrid manner, by including the continuous, discrete, uncertain, and stochastic aspects of all the system components. The main considered components of the NCS namely the network system and controlled system are completely decoupled according to their operation characteristics. The network part is taken as a discrete and stochastic system in presence of non-structured uncertainties and external faults, while the controlled part is considered as a continuous system in presence of input and output faults. Two model based fault diagnosis approaches are proposed in this paper. The first concerns a discrete and stochastic observer applied to the network system in order to detect and isolate system faults in presence of induced delay on the network part. The second is based on the analytical redundancy relations ( ARR ) allows detecting and isolating the input and output system’ faults. Experimental results applied on telerobotics system, show the performance and the limit of the proposed fault diagnosis approach.