Adaptive Fuzzy Decentralized Control for a Class of Large-Scale Nonlinear Systems With Actuator Faults and Unknown Dead Zones

This paper studies the fault-tolerant control problem for a class of uncertain large-scale nonlinear systems with unknown dead zones and actuator failures, including outage, loss of effectiveness, and stuck. It is assumed that the lower and upper bounds of actuator efficiency factor, the unparametrizable time-varying stuck fault, the system coefficient, and the uncertain functions of our considered systems are unknown. By introducing a smooth function, fuzzy logic systems and a bound estimation approach, a decentralized backstepping design method of fault-tolerant tracking controller is developed for the systems under consideration. The proposed controller can compensate the effects of actuator faults and dead zones completely. It is proved that all the signals in the closed-loop systems are ultimately bounded, and the tracking control performance can be achieved by the proposed controller. In comparing with the existing results, the restrictions on the number of failures are removed and the stuck fault is allowed to be time-varying. Finally, simulation results show the efficiency of the proposed control scheme.