The design generalization and adjustment of a failure isolation and accommodation system

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 construct an FI system which 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 which is based on the above FI capability. The entire design method is demonstrated by an automative powertrain example.