Fault diagnosis of networked control systems

Networked control systems (NCS) are feedback systems closed through data networks. NCS have many advantages compared with traditional systems; however, the network-induced delay and other characteristics of data networks may degrade the performance of feedback systems designed without taking the network into account. Supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China, we studied the fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control theory for NCS in recent years. This paper summarizes our main ideas and results on fault diagnosis of NCS, including the fundamentals of fault diagnosis for NCS with information-scheduling, fault diagnosis approaches based on the simplified time-delay system models, and the quasi T-S fuzzy model and fault diagnosis for linear and nonlinear NCS with long delay. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.