Linear Fault Estimators for Nonlinear Systems
An Ultra-Local Model Design
Farhad Ghanipoor (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Carlos Murguia (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Peyman Mohajerinesfahani (TU Delft - Team Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani)
Nathan van de Van De Wouw (Eindhoven University of Technology)
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Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of robust process and sensor fault reconstruction for nonlinear systems. The proposed method augments the system dynamics with an approximated internal linear model of the combined contribution of known nonlinearities and unknown faults - leading to an approximated linear model in the augmented state. We exploit the broad modeling power of ultra-local models to characterize this internal dynamics. We use a linear filter to reconstruct the augmented state (simultaneously estimating the state of the original system and the sum of nonlinearities and faults). Having this combined estimate, we can simply subtract the analytic expression of nonlinearities from that of the corresponding estimate to reconstruct the fault vector. Because the nonlinearity does not play a role in the filter dynamics (it is only used as a static nonlinear output to estimate the fault), we can avoid standard restrictive assumptions like globally (one-sided) Lipschitz nonlinearities and/or the need for Lipschitz constants to carry out the filter design. The filter synthesis is posed as a mixed H2/H∞ optimization problem where the effect of disturbances and model mismatches is minimized in the H∞ sense, for an acceptable H2 performance with respect to measurement noise.
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