Model-based Fault-Tolerant Control of Uncertain Particulate Processes: Integrating Fault Detection, Estimation and Accommodation

Abstract This work presents a methodology for the integrated identification, estimation and accommodation of control actuator faults in particulate processes with discretely-sampled measurements and plant-model mismatch. Initially, a stabilizing state feedback controller is designed on the basis of a reduced-order model of the infinite-dimensional system, and the closed-loop stability region is characterized in terms of the model uncertainty, the fault magnitude, the sampling period and the control design parameters. When state measurements are unavailable, the reduced-order inter-sample model predictor generates state estimates which are updated at each sampling time. A moving-horizon optimization problem is then formulated and solved for on-line actuator fault detection, isolation and estimation using past state and input data. The resulting estimates are used to locate the operating point with respect to the closed-loop stability region, which in turn is used to carry out the fault accommodation logic via updating the pot-fault control model and/or adjusting the controller design parameters. The developed methodology is illustrated using a non-isothermal continuous crystallizer example.

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