Prescribed-Time Performance Recovery Fault Tolerant Control of Platoon With Nominal Constraints Guarantee

The specific restrictions are breached in the case of vehicle platoon faults and result in unacceptable system performance degradation. This paper proposed a novel prescribed time performance recovery fault tolerant control method to ensure nominal platoon performance under multiple faults, including actuator faults with deferred backup actuator switching and leader-follower link faults in consideration. A novel barrier function based prescribed time sliding mode controller is devised to assure platoon consensus errors and convergence time within prescribed constraints under normal conditions at first. Under multiple faults conditions, to tackle with leader-follower link faults problem, a novel distributed recursive estimator is proposed to estimate the leader's states and recover the previous leader-follower platooning control protocol in a prescribed time. Besides, in the presence of actuator failures, the nominal constraints violated problem under faults is put into consideration. Owing to the unavoidable deferred actuator replacement time, the previous platoon consensus error constraints are violated and cause platoon performance degradation. Under such circumstances, by exploiting one novel barrier function-based sliding mode controller with an error shifting function, the unfavorable exceeding platoon consensus errors can be recovered into the nominal constraints domains within a prescribed time. Numerical simulations and hardware-in-loop (HIL) experiments are demonstrated to validate the effectiveness and superiority of our performance recovery fault tolerant control algorithms.

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In this paper, a novel prescribed time performance recovery fault tolerant control method is proposed to ensure nominal platoon performance under multiple faults. A novel barrier function based prescribed time sliding mode controller is devised to handle platoon consensus errors and convergence time within prescribed constraints under normal conditions. In the presence of leader-follower link faults, a distributed recursive estimator is proposed to estimate the leader's states and recover the previous leader-follower platooning control protocol in a prescribed time. The effectiveness and superiority of the proposed performance recovery fault tolerant control algorithms are validated through numerical simulations and hardware-in-loop experiments.