Fault detection observer design using time and frequency domain specifications

This paper deals with a multi-objective fault detection observer design problem in time and frequency domain for time invariant systems. Firstly, to improve the abilities of designed observer, different design criteria are proposed, which are evaluated by some suitable performance indices in time and frequency domain. Details about the relationships among different criteria are analyzed for two cases when the fault appears and disappears. With selected residual evaluation function and threshold, a formula with an envelope in time domain to realize fast fault detection is proposed for some typical faults. The designed observer considers the trade-off between fast transients of the residual for specified faults and the traditional criterion H – /H ∞ for general faults and disturbances. Compared with H – /H ∞ frequency design method, the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by the numerical simulation with a vehicle lateral dynamics system.