Sensor fault estimation for hydraulic servo actuator based on sliding mode observer

Abstract

In this paper, the mechanism for the fault estimation (FE) problem for a hydraulic servo actuator (HSA) with sensor faults is investigated. To deal with the design issues, we transformed the nonlinear model of HSA into a new coordinate system to estimate the sensor faults. In the new coordinate system, the Lipschitz conditions and system uncertainties are also considered. Then, we implement a sliding mode observer (SMO) approach to introduce the transformation scheme to make the system rational. The proposed fault estimation scheme essentially transforms the original system into two subsystems where the first one includes system uncertainties, but is free from sensor faults and the second one has sensor faults but without uncertainties. The effects of system uncertainties on the estimation errors of states and faults are minimized by integrating an $ H_\infty $ uncertainty attenuation level into the observer. The sufficient conditions for the state estimation error to be bounded and satisfy a prescribed $ H_\infty $ performance are derived and expressed as a linear matrix inequality (LMI) optimization problem. Finally, the numerical example with simulation results is provided to validate the practicability and efficacy of the developed control strategy.

Keywords

• fault estimation
• sensor faults
• hydraulic servo actuator
• sliding-mode observer
• system uncertainties