Fault tolerant control for plug-and-play interconnected nonlinear systems

作者:Yang, Hao*; Jiang, Bin; Staroswiecki, Marcel
来源:Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2016, 353(10): 2199-2217.
DOI:10.1016/j.jfranklin.2016.04.001

摘要

This paper considers interconnected nonlinear systems with on-line plugging/unplugging of subsystems that are modeled by state-varying and mode-varying switched systems. A modularized method is proposed to design each subsystem's decentralized control law, which together with a new condition on time intervals of plugging/unplugging lead to the stability of the interconnected system. Three plug-and-play based fault tolerant control algorithms are further provided in the presence of coupling faults. The new result allows for the plugging/unplugging without reconfiguring any subsystem's control law and without taking any action on the faulty subsystems. An example of coupled pendulums is taken to illustrate the theoretical results.