Sliding mode observer based incipient sensor fault detection with application to high-speed railway traction device
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Introduction
Modern control systems have become more complex in order to meet the increasing requirement for high levels of performance. Control engineers are faced with increasingly complex systems for which both the reliability and safety are very important. However, component incipient faults, such as electrolyte loss effectiveness of electrolytic capacitor, mechanical wears and bears etc., may induce drastically changes and result in undesirable performance degradation, even instability. These are life-critical for safety and actuate critical systems such as aircrafts, spacecrafts, nuclear power plants, chemical plants processing hazardous materials and high-speed railways. Therefore, incipient fault detection and development detection techniques are of practical significance. And, the most important issue of reliable system operation is to detect and isolate incipient faults as early as possible, which can give operators enough information and time to take proper measures to prevent any serious consequences on systems.
Typically, abrupt faults affect safety-relevant systems, which have to be detected early enough so that catastrophic consequences can be avoided by early system reconfiguration. Such faults normally have larger effect on detection residuals than that of modeling uncertainties, which can be detected by choosing appropriate thresholds. At the other end, incipient faults are closely related to maintenance problems and early detection of worn equipment is necessary. In this case, the amplitude of incipient faults are typically small. Thus the detection presents challenges to model-based FDI techniques due to the inseparable mixture between incipient fault and modeling uncertainty. Therefore, it is important to improve the residual robustness to system uncertainties and select more proper thresholds to improve the detectability of fault detection mechanism.
There are many methods proposed in last few decades to enhance the robustness in observer based fault detection, such as perfect unknown input decoupling [1], [2], [3], [4], optimal , schemes [5], [6], [7], [8], total measurable fault information residual [9], and projection method [10]. Fault detection schemes for switching systems [11], [12] and semiconductor manufacturing processes [13] have also been proposed. It has been recognized from general existence condition in [2] that, for a residual generator perfectly decoupled from unknown input, it is only possible when enough output signals are available. Different from perfect decoupling approach, the robust residual generators are designed in the context of a trade-off between robustness against disturbances and sensitivity to faults [5]. When perfect decoupling is not possible, the decision functions determined by residuals will be corrupted by unknown inputs. The common practice to evaluate the decision functions is to define appropriate thresholds, with which the decision functions are compared [1]. Therefore, the robustness residuals and proper selected thresholds are two important factors to improve detectability of incipient fault detection mechanism.
During the past decades, sliding mode observers have been used for FDI extensively [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22]. Ref. [14] uses a sliding mode observer to detect faults by disruption of sliding motion which is a difficult problem and motivate much research in the area. In [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], the “equivalent output injection” concept is used to explicitly construct fault signals to detect and isolate the faults, including sensor faults and actuator faults. In [18], uncertainties and disturbances are considered, which need the so called “matched uncertainty” in [23] assumption on the distribution matrices of the modeling uncertainties and disturbances. Also, [17] studies the so called “unmatched uncertainty” case based on the robust to enhance the robustness. Based on different structures of distribution matrices of faults and uncertainties, [20], [22] combine the Luenberger observer with sliding mode observer to detect faults, which needs perfect decoupling between faults and uncertainties. Therefore, sliding mode observer based FDI framework in [17], [21] mainly focus on robust residual generator design to get a trade-off between robustness against disturbances and sensitivity to faults. In reality, fault detectability can also be improved by selecting proper thresholds and the adaptive threshold is intuitive (see, e.g. [24]). However, adaptive threshold design based on sliding mode observers has not been available.
In this paper, a nonlinear sliding mode observer with novel designed sliding surface is proposed for incipient sensor fault detection. The parameters of the observer are particular designed relying on gain, guaranteeing residual robustness to uncertainties. At the same time, proper adaptive thresholds are obtained based on the reduced order sliding motion, which effectively improves incipient sensor fault detectability. Furthermore, different levels of detection decision schemes for incipient sensor fault development are proposed. The main contribution of this paper is as follows:
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A novel FD sliding mode observer framework is proposed to get proper adaptive thresholds to improve incipient fault detectability.
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Incipient sensor fault development detection schemes are studied and levels of detection decisions are proposed.
The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, preliminaries and assumptions are presented. In Section 3, the FDE sliding mode observer is proposed with parameters of observer being designed based on LMI and linear filter techniques. In Section 4, the sensor fault adaptive thresholds (for incipient fault, fault and failure) are designed and the continuous and piecewise continuous incipient sensor fault development detection decisions are made. In Section 5, case study of an application to the traction system in CRH (China Railway High-speed) is presented to demonstrate the obtained results. Section 6 concludes this paper.
Section snippets
System description and incipient sensor fault modeling
Consider a class of linear systems with sensor faults described bywhere is state vector, is control, represents external disturbance vector, is a nonlinear smooth vector representing the incipient sensor faults. is a known nonlinear smooth vector and is a nonlinear smooth vector representing the lumped disturbance, which is a generalized concept, possibly including external disturbances,
FDE sliding mode observer design
In this section, the sliding mode observer with designed sliding surface as FDE (fault detection estimator) will be designed to guarantee that the gain from uncertainties to output estimation errors are minimized. Both the healthy and faulty systems enter into the sliding surface before the incipient sensor fault developing to severe sensor failure (i.e., ).
From [18], there exist another linear transformation T described bywith with such that
Sensor fault detection decision schemes
In this paper, the faults considered are generated by differential Eq. (3), which represents two types of faults: continuous faults and piecewise continuous faults, shown in Fig. 3. Therefore, the general sensor fault detection decision schemes, proposed in this paper, are divided into two types:
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Incipient sensor fault development detection decision scheme, which is used to decide what time the incipient sensor faults are developed into sensor faults and what time the incipient faults are
Case study: application to traction system
A typical ac/dc/ac power system, with a single phase PWM boost rectifier and a three phase PWM inverter, used for electrical traction drives is shown in Fig. 4. The topology structure of three phase PWM voltage source inverter is shown in Fig. 5. Based on the Kirchoff current and voltage lemma, it can be got thatwhere Lf and Cf are filter inductor, capacitor respectively, vd and vq are -axis inverter
Conclusion
This paper has proposed a sliding mode observer based FDE, which is used to generate levels of residuals for the Lipchitz nonlinear systems and obtain levels of proper adaptive thresholds. As shown in the paper, the levels of proper adaptive thresholds effectively improve incipient fault detectability. Furthermore, the incipient sensor fault detection decision schemes have been studied, including continuous incipient sensor faults developing to sensor fault, continuous incipient sensor faults
Acknowledgments
This work is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 61490703 and 61573180), the Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. NE2014202).
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