Decentralized fault tolerant model predictive control of discrete-time interconnected nonlinear systems

This paper presents a novel approach to address the decentralized fault tolerant model predictive control of discrete-time interconnected nonlinear systems. The overall system is composed of a number of discrete-time interconnected nonlinear subsystems at the presence of multiple faults occurring at unknown time-instants. In order to deal with the unknown interconnection effects and changes in model dynamics due to multiple faults, both passive and active fault tolerant control design are considered. In the Active fault tolerant case an online approximation algorithm is applied to estimate the unknown interconnection effects and changes in model dynamics due to multiple faults. Besides, the decentralized control strategy is itnplemented for each subsystem with the model predictive control algorithm subject to some constraints. It is showed that the proposed method guarantees input-to-state stability characterization for both local subsystems and the global system under some predetermined assumptions. The simulation results are exploited to illustrate the applicability of the proposed method. (C) 2013 The Franklin Institute. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.