Explicit Multi-model Predictive Control for fault accomodation.

• Grant number: 10/13351-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2011
• End date: February 28, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Industrial Electronics, Electronic Systems and Controls
• Principal Investigator: Takashi Yoneyama
• Grantee: Deivison de Souza Lima
• Host Institution: Divisão de Engenharia Eletrônica (IEE). Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA). Ministério da Defesa (Brasil). São José dos Campos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 06/58850-6 - Diagnosis, prognosis and fault accommodation for dynamical systems, AP.TEM

Abstract

Technological development has enabled industrial process have a high performance in terms of reliability, dependability, maintainability and other safety, operation and environment requirements. In cases that the process is critical in these requirements, the occurrence of a fault could make it impracticable to reach them. As a solution to this problem, research of different strategies for fault-tolerant control systems have been developed in order to guarantee that, once the occurrence of a fault is given, the main objectives would be achieved. The control strategy known as Model Predictive Control (MPC) has been widely used in industry and also in fault-tolerant approaches. But, the MPC is limited by the high computational demand required at the real-time optimization problem. Predictive control strategies in which the optimization problem is solved a priori have been proposed to reduce the computational effort. This paper has as objective to study and implement strategies MPC whose control problem is solved a priori. Multi-model approaches will be investigated in order to satisfy some performance indices that guarantee the correct system operation given a fault presence. Only abrupt faults occurrences that will be diagnosed by an appropriated system will be considered. The results will be compared to the state-of-the-art and evaluated through computational simulations and, as a case study, an implementation in the Quanser company's kit available in the computer control laboratory at ITA.