AN INTEGRATED WAY TO DESIGN FD/FTC MODULES VIA PARITY SPACE AND MODEL FOLLOWING

This paper deals with the problem of integration of fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control modules. The main objective is to ensure a good behavior of the closed-loop system in the presence of faults and disturbances. To this aim, a global active methodology is defined in order to synthesize an additive optimal control input from fault detection and isolation results. More precisely, a robust residual is firstly generated by means of usual parity relations to detect and isolate faults on the system. Next, a fault accommodation procedure, based model following control scheme, is used to generate an additive control input according to the residual characteristics. The efficiency of this methodology is illustrated through an heating system benchmark.