Actuator Fault-Tolerant Control for Aero-Engine Control System: A Zonotope-Based Approach

Efficient fault-tolerant control (FTC) is necessary for the safe operation of aero-engine control system. In this paper, a high performance active FTC method based on zonotope for actuator fault in aero-engine control systems is proposed. Parameter uncertainties are considered to describe linearization error and identification error of system model for reducing the gap between theory and practice. Firstly, a zonotopic observer satisfying the peak-bounded index is proposed to reduce the influence of uncertainties and improve the accuracy of fault estimation. Moreover, with the aid of the zonotopic observer, the range of the sliding surface affected by the estimation errors and model uncertainties can be evaluated, and the dynamic quasi-sliding mode domain (QSMD) can be obtained. As a result, the dynamic QSMD can help design the parameters of the sliding mode fault-tolerant controller, ensure the stability and convergence of the entire closed-loop control system. Meanwhile, the conservative problem caused by manual parameters setting is avoided. Finally, the feasibility of the proposed method is verified by the aero-engine Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experiment platform.