Design generalization and adjustment of a failure isolation and accommodation system

Abstract

A commonly formulated failure isolation (FI) system does not exist for almost all plants. This paper asserts that by a direct adjustment, a reported design method can systematically and methodically construct an FI system that can isolate some of the failure occurrence situations, for those plant systems. This paper also presents several important technical adjustments of a recent but only briefly proposed adaptive failure control scheme that is based on the above FI capability. The entire design method is demonstrated by an automotive power-train example.