Robust state fault diagnosis in nonlinear discretetime systems with modelling uncertainties; using an automated intelligent methodology

Modern systems are required to guarantee a high degree of safety and self-diagnostics capabilities. This paper investigates the problem of state fault diagnosis in nonlinear systems with modeling uncertainties. In contrast with common literature, the fault diagnosis scheme is proposed in discrete time domain. This property relaxes the risk of stability and performance degradation in deriving discrete equivalent of continuous methods. An estimator is designed in order to generate residual signal by utilizing a proper nonlinear state transformation. A robust compensator term is implemented in estimator to decrease effect of modeling uncertainties and approximation error on residual signal. When the residual signal is exceeded detection threshold, an on-line fault approximator is turned on and trained by appropriate parameter update law. An extra term is considered in update rule to overcome the need of persistency of excitation (PE). The implement of all robust compensator term, PE relaxing term and proper parameter adaption law improve the accuracy of fault reconstruction. The result would be obviously vital in tolerant and time-life prediction stages after fault diagnosis.