15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
FAULT DETECTION AND ISOLATION BASED ON ADAPTIVE OBSERVERS FOR LINEAR TIME VARYING SYSTEMS
Aiping Xu* and Qinghua Zhang*
* IRISA-INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
Email: zhang@irisa.fr

A new method for fault detection and isolation (FDI) in stochastic linear time varying (LTV) systems is proposed in this paper. It allows to completely isolate any number of faults regardless of the number of output sensors, thanks to an appropriate assumption on the fault profiles and to some persistent excitation condition. In contrast, most existing methods enabling complete fault isolation have been developed for linear time invariant (LTI) systems and require a strong condition on the number of sensors. The method proposed in this paper is based on a recent development for the design of adaptive observers. Its performance is illustrated by a numerical example.
Keywords: fault detection and isolation, linear time varying system, adaptive algorithms.
Session slot T-Mo-A10: Fault estimation and change detection/Area code 7e : Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes