SYSTEM INVERSION AND FAULT DETECTION : THE FAILURE AFFINE NONLINEAR CASE

In this paper, nonlinear system inversion is revisited in order to apply it to fault detection and isolation problem. The considered concept of invertibility is less conservative than ones known in the literature, and the invertibility condition, in spite that a state space algorithm, is proposed, does not depend on the concrete state space realization. Fault detectability concepts based on that inversion algorithm hence neither will depend on the state space realization. The main difficulty is in the residual generation combined by inversion. keywords: Fault detection and Isolation, Nonlinear System, System Inversion, State Elimination.