Observer-Based Distributed Sensor Fault-Tolerant Model Predictive Control for Intermittent Faults

For distributed control systems with intermittent sensor faults, a distributed fault and state combined observer is designed, and an observer switching mode strategy is proposed to improve the observer convergence performance, then a distributed fault-tolerant model predictive is designed based on the observer. In the proposed observer, the distributed system observer matrices, and state and fault estimation are computed in a totally distributed way with some transition matrices, which can consider the coupled states. The switching mode observer can be more targeted. The two modes: state only estimation, both state and fault estimation are switched due to the absence or presence of the sensor faults. The approach is shown effective through a simulated example. Copyright (C) 2021 The Authors.