Fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control for the non-Gaussian time-delayed stochastic distribution control system

The purpose of fault diagnosis of stochastic distribution control (SDC) systems is to use the measured input and the system output probability density functions (PDFs) to obtain the fault information of the SDC system. When the target PDF is known, the purpose of fault tolerant control of stochastic distribution control system is to make the output PDF still track the given distribution using the fault tolerant controller. However, in practice, time delay may exist in the data (or image) processing, the modeling and transmission phases. When time delay is not considered, the effectiveness of the fault detection, diagnosis and fault tolerant control of stochastic distribution systems will be reduced. In this paper, the rational square-root B-spline is used to approach the output probability density function. In order to diagnose the fault in the dynamic part of such systems, it is then followed by the novel design of a nonlinear neural network observer-based fault diagnosis algorithm. The time delay term will be deleted in the stability proof of the observation error dynamic system. Based on the fault diagnosis information, a new fault tolerant controller based on PI tracking control is designed to make the post-fault probability density function still track the given distribution, which is dependent of the time delay term. Finally, simulations for the particle distribution control problem are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.