Fault tolerant control for a class of uncertain chaotic systems with actuator saturation

This paper studies the fault tolerant control problem for a class of uncertain chaotic systems via sliding mode control. Both actuator faults and saturation are considered. Under an actuator redundancy assumption, an important lemma is first given and proved to find a lower bound of fault information and saturation degree. Then an adaptive sliding mode controller is designed to guarantee locally asymptotical stability of synchronization error. Compared with existing literature, an obvious relationship between actuator fault information and stability region is revealed. An improved strategy is also proposed to reduce conservativeness when estimating stability region. Finally, a model of Chua’s circuit systems is used to demonstrate these results.