The purpose of this paper is to propose an adaptive neural-sliding mode-based observer for the estimation and reconstruction of unknown faults and disturbances for time-varying nonlinear systems such as aircraft, to ensure preciseness in the diagnosis of fault magnitude as well as the shape without enhancement of system complexity and cost. Fault-tolerant control (FTC) strategy based on adaptive neural-sliding mode is also proposed in the existence of faults for ensuring the stability of the faulty system.

    Design/methodology/approach

    In this paper, three strategies are presented: adaptive radial basis functions neural network (ARBFNN), conventional radial basis functions neural network (CRBFNN) and integral-chain differentiator. For the purpose of enhancement of fault diagnosis and isolation, a new sliding mode-based concept is introduced for the weight updating parameters of radial basis functions neural network (RBFNN).The main objective of updating the weight parameters adaptively is to enhance the effectiveness of fault diagnosis and isolation without increasing the computational complexities of the system. Results depict the effectiveness of the proposed ARBFNN approach in fault detection (FD) and approximation compared to CRBFNN, integral-chain differentiator and schemes existing in literature. In the second step, the FTC strategy is presented separately for each observer in the presence of unknown faults and failures for ensuring the stability of the system, which is validated on Boeing 747 100/200 aircraft.

    Findings

    The proposed adaptive neural-sliding mode approach is investigated, which depicts more effectiveness in numerous situations such as faults, disturbances and uncertainties compared to algorithms used in literature. In this paper, both the fault approximation and isolation and the fault tolerance approaches are studied.

    Practical implications

    For the enhancement of safety level as well as for avoiding any kind of damage, timely FD and fault tolerance have always had a significant role; therefore, the algorithms proposed in this research ensure the tolerance of faults and failures, which plays a vital role in practical life for avoiding any kind of damage.

    Originality/value

    In this study, a new neural-sliding mode concept is adopted for the adaptive faults approximation and reconstruction, and then the FTC algorithms are studied for each observer separately, whereas in previous studies, only the fault detection and isolation (FDI) or the fault tolerance problems were studied. Results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy compared to the approaches given in the literature.


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    Title :

    Neural-sliding mode approach-based adaptive estimation, isolation and tolerance of aircraft sensor fault


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2019-12-18


    Size :

    1 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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