Title: Operator-based actuator fault detection system design of a thermal process

Authors: Mingcong Deng; Shuhui Bi; Shengjun Wen

Addresses: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2-24-16 Nakacho, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan. ' Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Robot and Manufacturing Automation Technology, Institute of Automation Shandong Academy of Sciences, 19 Keyuan Road, Jinan, Shandong 250014, China. ' Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2-24-16 Nakacho, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan; Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Zhongyuan University of Technology, Zhongyuan Load No. 41, Zhengzhou 450007, China

Abstract: In this paper, an operator-based fault detection method for actuator fault of an aluminium plate thermal process is proposed by using operator-based robust right coprime factorisation (RCF) approach. In details, operator-based output tracking and fault detection system design for single input single output (SISO) system is proposed, then the theoretical analysis is extended to multi input multi output (MIMO) system. Based on the proposed design schemes, the output tracking performance can be realised and the actuator fault can be detected. After developing a mathematical model of the three-input three-output aluminium plate thermal process, the proposed design schemes are applied and the effectiveness of that is confirmed by the simulation results.

Keywords: operator-based robust FCF; right coprime factorisation; fault detection; thermal processes; actuators; aluminium plate; SISO systems; MIMO systems; output tracking; actuator faults; mathematical modelling; simulation; tracking performance.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2012.050703

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2012 Vol.45 No.2/3, pp.148 - 155

Published online: 01 Dec 2012 *

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