Fault Tolerant Control Allocation Scheme for LPV system

Abstract

This paper proposed a passive fault tolerant control (FTC) approach for the class of linear parameter-varying systems to deal with faults and failures in the actuator channel. The method provided in this study combines the robustness feature of integral sliding mode control (ISMC) and control allocation (CA) obtained through singular value decomposition of the input matrix. The purpose is to effectively handle faults and failures along the entire operating spectrum, which involves various scheduling parameters. This technique is effective because the same baseline controller, initially developed for a nominal system, can deal with a wide range of faults and failures without acquiring fault information. The performance of ISM-FTC is tested on a longitudinal model of aircraft system. Numerical simulations indicate no noticeable difference in tracking performance between nominal and faulty conditions.