Robust and Active Fault-tolerant Control for a Class of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems

A novel integrated design strategy for robust fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control (FTC) of a class of nonlinear uncertain systems is proposed. The uncertainties considered in this paper are more general than those in other existing works, and faults are described in a new formulation. It is proven that the states of a closed-loop system converge asymptotically to zero even if there are uncertainties and faults in a system. Simulation results on a simple pendulum are presented for illustration.