Fault diagnosis and accommodation with flight control applications

ABSTRACT

This paper reviews some main results and process concerning with fault diagnosis and accommodation with flight control applications. The fault detection and diagnosis including the quantitative and qualitative methods and the fault-tolerant control including passive and active schemes are introduced, respectively. The control designs and developments of the fault diagnosis and accommodation for continuous-time systems and discrete-time systems, the fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control for switched systems and interconnected systems as well as the applied flight control research including hypersonic vehicle, spacecraft and helicopter systems are summarised.

Keywords:

• Fault diagnosis
• fault accommodation
• fault-tolerant control
• switched systems
• interconnected systems
• multi-agent systems
• flight control applications

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61773201, 61673207 and 61622304).

Notes on contributors

Bin Jiang

Bin Jiang received the Ph.D. degree in automatic control from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 1995. He had ever been a Post-Doctoral Fellow, a Research Fellow, an Invited Professor and a Visiting Professor in Singapore, France, USA and Canada, respectively. He is currently Chair Professor of Cheung Kong Scholar Program with the Ministry of Education and the Vice President of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. He has authored 8 books and over 200 referred international journal papers and conference papers. His current research interests include intelligent fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control and their applications to helicopters, satellites and high-speed trains. Dr. Jiang was a recipient of the Second Class Prize of National Natural Science Award of China in 2018. He currently serves as an Associate Editor or an Editorial Board Member for a number of journals, such as the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, Journal of Astronautics, Control and Decision, and Systems Engineering and Electronics Technologies. He is a Chair of Control Systems Chapter in IEEE Nanjing Section, a member of IFAC Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision, and Safety of Technical Processes. He has been a Principle Investigator on several projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Ke Zhang

Ke Zhang received the Ph.D. degree in control theory and engineering from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2012. Dr. Zhang joined the College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, in 2012. He is currently a full professor with the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has published 2 books and over 60 referred international journal papers and conference papers. From May 2018 to April 2019, he was a visiting scholar in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts at University of Kent. He currently serves as Associate Editor for Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems. His research interests include fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control of dynamical systems and their applications.

Chun Liu

Chun Liu received the B.S. degree in automation and the M.S. degree in control theory and control engineering from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2013 and 2016, respectively, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. His current research interests include fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control for multi-agent systems and their applications.

Hao Yang

Hao Yang received the B.Sc. degree in electrical automation from Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China, in 2004, and Ph.D. degrees in automatic control from Université de Lille 1: Sciences et Technologies, Lille, France, and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, China, both in 2009. Since 2010, he has been working at College of Automation Engineering in NUAA, where he was an associate professor from 2010 to 2014 and has been a full professor since 2015. His research interest includes fault tolerant and safe control of switched and interconnected systems, multi-agent systems and their aerospace applications. He has published 2 books and over 70 international journal papers. He was the recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2016, and the Top-Notch Young Talents of Central Organization Department of China in 2017. He has served as Associate Editor for Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems and Acta Automatica Sinica.