On the use of adaptive updating rules for actuator and sensor fault diagnosis (Q1354860)

By means of adaptive updating rules, an algorithm is presented for fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) of faults in actuators and sensors in the case of a linear time-invariant system subject to an unknown input that represents either model uncertainty or unmeasurable disturbances. Two observers -- a fixed detection observer and an adaptive diagnostic observer -- are constructed separately to detect and diagnose the fault. As a result, a convergent adaptive diagnostic algorithm for estimating the parameters in the nonlinear actuators is developed. Two illustrative numerical examples are given.