Actuator Fault-Tolerant Control Applied to Three-Tank System

This paper focuses on the application of an active fault-tolerant control (AFTC) to a real nonlinear system using analytic redundancy in case of actuator faults. This approach is composed of the fault detection, isolation, and estimation (FDIE) module and a control compensation module. A high-gain observer (HGO) is used for FDIE; a new control law is then reconstructed by the addition of the estimated actuator fault magnitude to the nominal control law. Experimental results highlight the performance of the proposed approach when it is applied to the hydrographic plant.