Set-Membership Fault Detection for Continuous-time Switched Linear Systems

The problem of Fault Detection (FD) for continuous-time switched linear systems subject to bounded disturbances is investigated in this paper. Based on cooperativity and stability properties, and fulfillment of an Average Dwell Time (ADT) constraint, guaranteed upper and lower bounds of the state are calculated using an interval observer. Under the assumption that disturbances and measurement noise are unknown but bounded with a priori known bounds, stability criteria is expressed in terms of Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs). Then, a fault detection methodology is developed to indicate the presence of faults. Finally, we demonstrate the proposed fault detection approach via an illustrative example