Switching fault-tolerant control of a moving vehicle-mounted flexible manipulator system with state constraints

In this brief, a switching fault-tolerant control (FTC) scheme is presented for a moving vehicle-mounted flexible manipulator subject to state constraints. The dynamic characteristics of the system are represented by coupled ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations (ODEs-PDEs). When actuators are healthy, vibration control and position regulations can be realized without violation of the given constraints based on a Barrier Lyapunov Function (BLF). Moreover, a switching strategy is introduced to prevent the transgression of constraints even under actuator failure by detecting actuator faults as-assisted by the proposed monitoring functions. The closed-loop states are kept within the given bounds under FTC laws. By extending LaSalle's Invariance Principle to an infinite dimension, the asymptotic stability of the fault-free closed-loop system is strictly verified. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.