Fault detection for discrete-time systems with randomly occurring nonlinearity and data missing: A quadrotor vehicle example

This paper concerns the fault detection (FD) problem for a class of discrete-time systems subject to data missing and randomly occurring nonlinearity modeled by two independent Bernoulli distributed random variables. We propose to design a set of fault detection filters, or residual generation systems, corresponding to each of the fault components, to guarantee that each subsystem is mean square stable and satisfies a prescribed disturbance attenuation level. Sufficient conditions are established in the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). System faults can be effectively detected by generating the residues and comparing them with the dynamic fault thresholds. A quadrotor vehicle example with faults on angles and angular rates illustrates and verifies the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. (C) 2013 The Franklin Institute. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.