Observer-based optimal fault detection using PDFs for time-delay stochastic systems

This paper concerns the problem of fault detection (FD) for general stochastic systems with time delays. Different from the classical FD problem, the available information for the FD is the input and the measured output probability density functions (PDFs) of the system. Based on this, firstly, square root B-spline expansions technique is applied to model the PDFs so that the concerned FD problem is transformed into a nonlinear FD problem subject to the weight dynamical systems. Secondly, by using the FD observer as residual generator and guaranteed cost performance index as objective function, design of the FD observer is formulaled as an optimization problem. A delay-dependent condition to solve this problem is established in terms of the feasibility of linear matrix inequality (LMI). Moreover, in order to improve FD performance, the guaranteed cost algorithm is applied to optimal observer design. Finally, two examples are given to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.