Fault-Tolerant Periodic Economic Model Predictive Control of Differential-Algebraic-Equation Systems

This paper addresses a fault-tolerant periodic economic model predictive control (MPC) strategy for differential algebraic-equation (DAE) systems. Fault tolerance evaluation of the proposed economic MPC strategy uses set computations and a performance degradation analysis. By means of the set computations, the feasible solution set (including system states and control inputs) can be determined as well as the admissible performance set can be obtained when system reconfiguration or fault accommodation strategies are used. The proposed control strategy allows to carry out an analysis of performance degradation by using the feasible and admissible performance set. As a result, if the performance degradation is accepted, the economic MPC controller can be applied using system reconfiguration or fault accommodation. Finally, the proposed fault-tolerant MPC strategy is verified through an illustrative example.