Towards a Generic Distributed and Fault-Tolerant Control Architecture: Case Study of a Hydraulic Valve Actuation System

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Reuter ◽  
Mohan Radhamohan ◽  
Ankur Khandelwal
Keyword(s):  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Fault Tolerant Control ◽  
Control Architecture ◽  
Actuation System ◽  
Hydraulic Valve ◽  
Valve Actuation

Active fault-tolerant control for vertical tail damaged aircraft with dissimilar redundant actuation system using integral sliding mode control

2018 ◽  
Vol 233 (7) ◽  
pp. 2361-2378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salman Ijaz ◽  
Mirza T Hamayun ◽  
Lin Yan ◽  
Cun Shi
Keyword(s):  
Actuator Saturation ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Sliding Mode ◽  
Fault Tolerant Control ◽  
Fault Estimation ◽  
Redundant Actuation ◽  
Severe Damage ◽  
Integral Sliding Mode ◽  
Actuation System ◽  
Electrohydraulic Actuator

The research about the dissimilar redundant actuation system has indicated the potential fault-tolerant capability in modern aircraft. This paper proposed a new design methodology to achieve fault-tolerant control of an aircraft equipped with dissimilar actuators and is suffered from vertical tail damage. The proposed design is based on the concept of online control allocation to redistribute the control signals among healthy actuators and integral sliding mode controller is designed to achieve the closed-loop stability in the presence of both component and actuator faults. To cope with severe damage condition, the aircraft is equipped with dissimilar actuators (hydraulic and electrohydraulic actuators). In this paper, the performance degradation due to slower dynamics of electrohydraulic actuator is taken in account. Therefore, the feed-forward compensator is designed for electrohydraulic actuator based on fractional-order control strategy. In case of failure of hydraulic actuator subject to severe damage of vertical tail, an active switching mechanism is developed based on the information of fault estimation unit. Additionally, a severe type of actuator failure so-called actuator saturation or actuator lock in place is also taken into account in this work. The proposed strategy is compared with the existing control strategies in the literature. Simulation results indicate the dominant performance of the proposed scheme. Moreover, the proposed controller is found robust with a certain level of mismatch between the actuator effectiveness level and its estimate.

Adaptive fault tolerant control of dissimilar redundant actuation system of civil aircraft based on integral sliding mode control strategy

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (13) ◽  
pp. 3756-3768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salman Ijaz ◽  
Mirza Tariq Hamayun ◽  
Lin Yan ◽  
Hamdoon Ijaz ◽  
Cun Shi
Keyword(s):  
Sliding Mode Control ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Sliding Mode ◽  
Fault Tolerant Control ◽  
Redundant Actuation ◽  
Integral Sliding Mode Control ◽  
Integral Sliding Mode ◽  
Actuation System ◽  
Civil Aircraft

In modern aircraft, the dissimilar redundant actuation system is used to resolve the actuator failure issues due to the common cause, thus increasing the system reliability. This paper proposes an adaptive integral sliding mode fault tolerant control strategy to deal with actuator fault/failure in the dissimilar redundant actuation system of civil aircraft. To cope with the unknown actuator faults, the adaptive integral sliding mode controller is designed where the modulation gain is made adaptive to the fault. To deal with the complete failure of certain actuator, the integral sliding mode control is integrated with control allocation scheme and distribute the control input signals to the redundant actuators. The performance of the proposed scheme is tested on the nonlinear model of dissimilar redundant actuation system, where the effect of external airload is accounted during simulations. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is validated by comparing the simulations with the existing literature.

scholarly journals Fault Tolerant Control of Internal Faults in Wind Turbine: Case Study of Gearbox Efficiency Decrease

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Younes Ait El Maati ◽  
Lhoussain El Bahir ◽  
Khalid Faitah
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Fault Tolerant Control ◽  
Operating Point ◽  
Rotor Speed ◽  
Integral Term ◽  
Internal Faults

This paper presents a method to control the rotor speed of wind turbines in presence of gearbox efficiency fault. This kind of faults happens due to lack of lubrication. It affects the dynamic of the principal shaft and thus the rotor speed. The principle of the fault tolerant control is to find a bloc that equalizes the dynamics of the healthy and faulty situations. The effectiveness decrease impacts on not only the dynamics but also the steady state value of the rotor speed. The last reason makes it mandatory to add an integral term on the steady state error to cancel the residual between the measured and operating point rotor speed. The convergence of the method is proven with respect to the rotor parameters and its effectiveness is evaluated through the rotor speed.

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