An LPV Fault Tolerant control for semi-active suspension - scheduled by fault estimation★

In this paper, a novel fault tolerant control is proposed to accommodate damper faults (oil leakages) in a semi-active suspension system based on a quarter-car vehicle model. The fault accommodation is based on the Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) control strategy and involves two steps. At first, a fast time-varying fault is estimated by using the fast adaptive fault estimation (FAFE) algorithm, based on an unknown input adaptive observer. Thanks to information about the estimated fault, the dissipativity domain of the semi-active suspension is adapted according to the fault. Then a single LPV fault tolerant controller is developed to manage the system performances. The controller solution, derived in the LPV/H∞ framework, is based on the LMI solution for polytopic systems. Some simulation results are presented that show the effectiveness of this approach.