Fault-Tolerant Control of One-Sided Lipschitz Nonlinear Systems

In this short paper, development of an adaptive fault tolerant control (FTC) using a virtual actuator framework is presented for one-sided Lipschitz nonlinear systems subjected to time-varying loss of effectiveness and additive actuator faults. The proposed controller does not require to have a separate unit to detect, isolate, and identify a fault, and it is completely independent from the nominal controller. Due to this important property, the virtual actuator can easily added between the faulty plant and the nominal controller and it can guarantee that the deviation of states from the nominal behavior of the system in the presence of actuator faults can be made arbitrary small. Simulation results are provided to show the efficacy of the proposed adaptive fault tolerant controller.