Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2012, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (1): 99-107.doi: 10.1109/JSEE.2012.00013

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Sensor fault-tolerant observer applied in satellite attitude control

Jiaolong Wei1, Zhaohui Cen1,2,*, and Rui Jiang3   

  1. 1. Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China;
    2. Institute for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China;
    3. Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 4000, Australia
  • Online:2012-02-25 Published:2010-01-03

Abstract:

The observing failure and feedback instability might happen when the partial sensors of a satellite attitude control system (SACS) go wrong. A fault diagnosis and isolation (FDI) method based on a fault observer is introduced to detect and isolate the fault sensor at first. Based on the FDI result, the object system state-space equation is transformed and divided into a corresponsive triangular canonical form to decouple the normal subsystem from the fault subsystem. And then the KX fault-tolerant observers of the system in different modes are designed and embedded into online monitoring. The outputs of all KX fault-tolerant observers are selected by the control switch process. That can make sense that the SACS is part-observed and in stable when the partial sensors break down. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method.