Journal of Control Science and Engineering
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 849546, 19 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/849546
Review Article

On Fault Detection in Linear Discrete-Time, Periodic, and Sampled-Data Systems

P. Zhang and S. X. Ding

Institute for Automatic Control and Complex Systems, Faculty of Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, Bismarckstrasse 81 BB, Duisburg 47057, Germany

Received 30 April 2007; Accepted 4 October 2007

Academic Editor: Kemin Zhou

Copyright © 2008 P. Zhang and S. X. Ding. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

This paper gives a review of some standard fault-detection (FD) problem formulations in discrete linear time-invariant systems and the available solutions. Based on it, recent development of FD in periodic systems and sampled-data systems is reviewed and presented. The focus in this paper is on the robustness and sensitivity issues in designing model-based FD systems.

1. Introduction

With the increasing requirements of modern complex control systems on safety and reliability, model-based fault detection and isolation (FDI) technology has attracted remarkable attention during the last three decades [1–6]. In major industrial sectors, it has become an important supporting technology and is replacing the traditional hardware redundancy technique in part or totally. As a standard functional module, FDI systems are increasingly integrated in modern technical systems and provide valuable information for condition-based predictive maintenance, higher-level fault tolerant control, and plant-wide production optimization.

Though closely related to the development of control and filtering theory, there are several distinct features of the model-based FDI problems that justify the efforts made in this field. To evaluate the performance of an FDI system in practice, miss alarm rate, false alarm rate, and detection delay are the most important criteria that decide the acceptance of the methods. It is widely accepted that these functional requirements can be reformulated as a multi-objective problem. Enhancing the robustness of the FDI system to unknown disturbances and modeling errors is an essential objective. However, alone the robustness does not guarantee a good FDI performance. The sensitivity of the FDI system to faults should be simultaneously improved. To find the best compromise between the robustness and the sensitivity is thus the central problem in model-based FDI. This is the first difference of FDI problems from control and standard filtering problems, where the focus is put on disturbance attenuation. Bearing this in mind, full-decoupling problem and optimal design of FDI systems have been studied [3–6] and different types of indices have been introduced to describe the sensitivity to the faults. Secondly, for the purpose of FDI, a fault indicating signal, called residual, needs not only to be generated, but also to be evaluated and, based on it, a decision for the existence, location, and size of the faults needs to be made. Therefore, an FDI procedure includes residual generation and residual evaluation. An integrated design of these two parts is needed to guarantee the optimal FDI performance [7].

In this paper, we will first give a review of some standard fault detection (FD) problem formulations in discrete-time systems and the available solutions. There are two types of discrete-time model-based FD systems: the parity space and the observer-based ones. The former is, in its original form, specially dedicated to the discrete-time systems [8], while the latter is analogous to the continuous-time systems and its development shares the same essentials with the continuous-time systems. Perhaps for this reason, besides the early research activity on the parity space approaches, only few studies have been specifically devoted to the FD problems in discrete-time systems. Recently, the intensive research on networked control systems (NCS) and embedded systems considerably stimulates the study on periodic, sampled-data systems [9]. The integration of data communication networks into control systems introduces natural periodic behavior in the system dynamics and the sampling effect is understood not only in view of the behavior of A/D and D/A converters but also in the context of data transmission among the subsystems. It can be observed that the recent studies on FD in periodic and sampled-data systems are mainly based on the discrete-time model-based FD methods. It is this fact that motivates us to give an overview of some standard FD methods for discrete-time systems and, based on it, to review and present some recent results on FD in periodic and sampled-data systems. Bearing in mind that fault isolation problems can be principally reformulated as a robust fault detection problem [4, 5], our focus in this paper is on the robustness issues in designing model-based FD systems.

The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we review FD methods for discrete-time systems and address some important relations between different methods. Section 3 is devoted to FD in discrete-time periodic systems. In Section 4, FD in sampled-data systems is addressed.

Throughout this paper, standard notations of robust control theory, for instance those used in [10], are adopted. We will use to denote the minimum and maximum singular values of matrix , respectively and to denote any singular value of that satisfies . denotes the Euclidean norm of vector , the -norm of discrete-time signal or the -norm of continuous-time signal , the norm of over the interval , and the -norm of transfer function matrix . The superscript denotes the transpose of matrices and the superscript denotes the adjoint of operators. stands for the subspace that consists of all proper and real rational stable transfer function matrices. In this paper, we call a state-space model regular, if it is detectable and has no invariant zeros on the unit circle and no unobservable modes at the origin.

2. FD of Discrete LTI Systems

Linear time-invariant (LTI) systems are the simplest class of systems. Although the handling of FD problems in discrete LTI systems can often be done along the well-established framework of FD schemes for continuos LTI systems, study on FD in discrete LTI systems is of primary importance from the following three aspects:

(i)it gives insight and often motivates extensions to more complex systems like periodic and sampled-data systems addressed in the subsequent sections;(ii)there are some methods that have been developed specially for discrete LTI systems;(iii)due to its practical form for the direct online implementation, the discrete-time system form is often favored in the applications. In this section, basic ideas and solution procedures of advanced FD methods for discrete LTI systems, divided into three groups, will be reviewed:

(i)parity space approaches, which are specific for discrete LTI systems and will be dealt to some details;(ii)the parametrization of observer-based FD systems and post-filter design schemes;(iii)fault detection filter schemes, which are mostly studied and closely related to robust control theory. Thanks to the well-known relationships between the technical features of the discrete- and continuous-time systems, many well-established FD schemes for continuous LTI systems can be directly applied to the latter two FD schemes. For this reason, we will restrict ourselves to some representative methods and give a brief view of the analog application of the methods for continuous-time systems to the discrete FD systems. Another focus in this section is on the comparison and interpretation of the FD methods.

2.1. System Models and Problem Formulation

Suppose that the discrete LTI systems are described by where is the state vector, the vector of control inputs, the vector of process outputs, the vector of unknown disturbances, and the vector of faults to be detected, , and are known constant matrices of appropriate dimensions. In the frequency domain, system can be equivalently described by where , and denote, respectively, the transfer function matrices from , and to .

Although the design of a model-based FD systems mainly consists of three tasks: (a) residual generation, (b) residual evaluation, (c) threshold determination, major research attention has been focused on the residual generation with the following issues.

(i)Full decoupling problem, which deals with the design of a residual generator, so that the residual signal satisfies If a full decoupling is realized, then the residual evaluation reduces to detect the nonzeroness of the residual signal.(ii)Optimal FD problem, which is to design the residual generator so that the residual signal is as small as possible if and deviates from as much as possible if , Considering that in the fault-free case the residual signal would, due to the existence of differ from zero, evaluation of the size of is necessary in order to distinguish the influence of the faults from that of the disturbances. In this paper, the norm-based evaluation of the residual signal, denoted by and, based on it, threshold determination satisfying will be briefly reviewed.

2.2. Parity Space Approach

The parity space approach is based on the so-called parity relation. Let be an integer denoting the length of a moving time window. The output of system (1) over the moving window can be expressed by the initial state , the stacked control input vector , the stacked disturbance vector , and the stacked fault vector as where and are constructed similarly as and can be achieved by replacing , respectively, by and . To satisfy the requirement on the residual signal, a residual generator can be constructed as where a design parameter called parity vector is introduced to modulate the residual dynamics and improve the sensitivity of the residual to the faults and the robustness to the disturbances and the initial state. Usually, is required to eliminate the influence of the initial state and the past input signals (before the time instant ).

If the existence condition is satisfied, then a full decoupling from both the initial state and the disturbances can be achieved by solving for , that is, lies in the intersection between the left null space of and the image space of . If a full decoupling is not achievable or not desired, the FD problem is often formulated as to solve the optimization problem whose solution can be obtained by solving a generalized eigenvalue-eigenvector problem [11].

Solution to Optimization Problem (10)
Let denote the basis of the left null space of . Assume that and are the maximal generalized eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvector to the generalized eigenvalue-eigenvector problem then optimization problem (10) is solved by It is pointed out in [12] that the solutions of a full decoupling or (10) are achieved at the cost of (considerably) reduced fault detectability. This can be immediately seen with a look at the dynamics of the residual signal which shows that the influence of the fault expressed by is structurally reduced to a minimum, that is, . Reference [12] proposed the use of a parity matrix instead of a parity vector aiming at enhancing the influence of the faults on the residual signal. To this end, the following optimization problems are formulated as:
The difference in optimization problems (15)-(16) consists in that the former considers the maximal influence of the faults on the residual amplitude, while the latter considers the minimal influence. Optimization problem (17) is a generalization of (15)-(16) and takes into account the fault sensitivity in different directions. The achievable optimal performance index of optimization problem (15) is the same with that of (10). At the end of this subsection, we will show that the solution of (17) would lead to maximizing the fault detectability in the context of a tradeoff between false alarm rate and fault detectability.

Solution to Optimization Problems (15), (16), and (17)
A solution to optimization problem (17) that also solves (15)-(16) simultaneously is given in [12] as follows, which is derived based on the observation that for any matrices and of compatible dimensions, Assume that there is the following singular value decomposition (SVD): where and are unitary matrices, then optimization problems (15), (16), and (17) are solved by where is any unitary matrix of compatible dimensions.
Note that the solutions to the above optimization problems are not unique. For instance, an alternative optimal solution for problem (16) is where is the left inverse of . On the other side, only solution (20) solves (15), (16), and (17) simultaneously. For this reason, (20) is called unified parity space solution.
To detect the faults successfully, the generated residual signal should be further evaluated. For a residual signal generated by means of the parity space approach, the Euclidean norm defined by is a reasonable evaluation function. It follows from (14) and (4) that the corresponding threshold is determined by Based on the decision logic a decision for the occurrence of a fault can be finally made.
In practice, false alarm rate and miss detection rate are two important technical features for the performance evaluation of a fault detection system. Below, we will introduce these two concepts in the context of the norm-based residual evaluation (22) and briefly compare the above-presented parity space solutions.
setting under a given false alarm rate. Consider (23) and denote the upper bound of by . In the context of norm-based evaluation, the objective of setting is to ensure that any disturbance whose size is not larger than the tolerant limit should not cause an alarm. To express the strongest disturbance that is allowed without causing a false alarm in relation to , we define false alarm rate (FAR) as that is, those disturbances whose size is not larger than should not cause an alarm. Suppose that the allowable FAR is now given. It is straightforward that the threshold should be set as Note that in the norm-based residual evaluation, is often set as which leads to a zero but may result in a very conservative setting.
To express the miss detection rate (MDR), we introduce the set of detectable faults. Note that a fault can be detected if and only if Hence, the set of detectable faults (SDF) is defined as follows: given and Given a parity space matrix delivers a residual signal with the lowest MDR if that is, includes the largest number of detectable faults, which is equivalent with the lowest MDR.
The subsequent comparison study is done in the context of maximizing SDF (i.e., minimizing MDR) under a given FAR.
Note that (27) can be, according to (19), rewritten into It turns out that , (30) holds only if It means that a parity matrix that ensures (31) would provide a maximal SDF. Note that the unified parity space solution (20) delivers exactly (31). Thus, the unified parity space solution maximizes SDF (i.e., minimizes MDR) under a given FAR.
For comparison, denote the SVD of by Then the vector-valued solution (12) to optimization problem (10) and the matrix-valued solution (21) to optimization problem (16) can be, respectively, rewritten into Since, generally, are not unitary matrices, we have finally With the following remarks we would like to conclude this subsection.

(i)Parity-space-based FD system design is characterized by the simple mathematical handling. It only deals with matrix- and vector-valued operations. This fact attracts attention from the industry for the application of parity-space-based methods.(ii)There is a one-to-one relationship between the parity-space approach and the observer-based approach that allows the design of an observer-based residual generator based on a given parity vector [13, 14]. Based on this result, a strategy called parity-space design, observer-based implementation has been developed, which makes use of the computational advantage of parity-space approaches for the FD system design (selection of a parity vector or matrix) and then realizes the solution in the observer form to ensure a numerically stable and less consuming online computation. This strategy has been successfully used in the sensor-fault detection in vehicles [15].(iii)In the parity-space approaches, a high order will improve the optimal performance index but, on the other side, increase the online computational effort [16]. By introducing a low-order IIR (infinite impulse response) filter, the performance of the parity-relation-based residual generator can be much improved without significant increase of the order of the parity relation [17]. Similar effect can be achieved by the closed-loop-observer-based implementation, as pointed out by [18].(iv)The algebraic form of the parity-space-based FD system allows a statistic test and norm-based residual evaluation and threshold determination [19]. It may well bridge the statistical methods [1] and the observer-based methods.(v)In the framework of parity-space-based FD system design, system dynamic features like transmission zeros, zeros in the right half plane (RHP), and so forth are not taken into account. This may cause trouble at the online implementation. Also for this reason, we are of the opinion that the strategy of parity space design, observer-based implementation would be helpful to solve this problem.

2.3. Parametrization of FD Systems and Post-Filter Design

Observer-based FD system design for continuous LTI systems has been widely studied in the literature [3–6]. In this and the next subsections, the analog form of those known results will be briefly reviewed. Attention will be paid to the comparison study when it is special for discrete LTI systems.

Let be a left coprime factorization pair of , that is, [10]. In [20], a parametrization of all LTI residual generators for system (1) described by is presented, where is the so-called postfilter that is arbitrarily selectable. Suppose that is a detectable state space realization of . Then can be computed as follows [10]: It is now a well-known result that

(i) where is the output estimation delivered by a full-order observer;(ii)given and , there exists an -invertible postfilter so that where and are the left coprime factorization pair of , which are computed according to (36) with and , respectively.(iii)all LTI residual generators can be expressed by a series connection of a full-order observer and a postfilter, and are therefore called observer-based residual generators. Moreover, the selection of the postfilter can be done independent of the observer design. Due to the latter fact, we concentrate in this subsection on the selection of . The dynamics of a residual generator (35) is governed by The full decoupling problem is to find the postfilter so that If the -norm of the residual signal is used as evaluation function, then the optimal FD problem is formulated as optimization problems where represents the fault sensitivity at different levels at the frequency , though not a norm, it is interpreted as the worst-case fault sensitivity. Optimization problems (40), (41), and (43) are often called the , and optimization, respectively.

The ratio-type performance index given in (40) and (43) is the first one that was introduced for the FD purpose [11, 21]. Currently, the index of the form becomes more popular, where are some constants. The FD system design is often formulated as maximizing under a given The third index type is often met in the robust control theory and formulated as where are some given constants. The FD system design is then achieved by maximizing In [22], it has been demonstrated that the above three types indices are equivalent in a certain sense. With this fact in mind, in this paper we only consider optimizations under ratio-type indices (40)–(43).

Solution to Optimization Problems (40)–(42)
Let be a co-inner-outer factorization of [10], where is the -left-invertible co-outer, is the co-inner containing all the right half complex plane zeros of and satisfying . Based on the relations it has been proven in [23, 24], similar to the results for continuous LTI systems given in [22] and recently in [25], that optimization problems (40)–(42) are solved simultaneously by For this reason, (48) is called unified solution.

Another solution to optimization problem (41), if is -left-invertible, is where is the co-outer of .

The main purpose of the co-inner-outer factorization is to separate the nonminimum phase zeros so that the rest part of or is -left invertible. Note that the co-inner-outer factorization is not unique. Therefore, the optimal postfilter is also not unique [26].

Solution to Optimization Problem (43)
The optimal solution to optimization problem (43) is a frequency selector as follows [27]: where is an ideal frequency-selective filter with the selective frequency at , which satisfies are, respectively, the maximal generalized eigenvalue and corresponding eigenvector of the following generalized eigenvalue-eigenvector problem: and is the frequency at which achieves its maximum, that is, In practice, usually a narrow bandpass filter is implemented as frequency selector. From the viewpoint of FAR and MDR, the frequency selector may cause loss of fault sensitivity and restrict the application of the optimal residual generator.

Recently, [27] reported a very interesting result on the relationship between the parity-space vector and the solution to optimization problem (43). It has been shown that and correspond to a bandpass filter. This result not only reveals the physical interpretation of the standard optimal selection of parity vectors but also provides us with an efficient tool to approximate the optimal solution to optimization problem (43). Moreover, based on it, advanced parity-space approaches using wavelet transform have been proposed [28, 29].

As to the residual evaluation and threshold determination, the -norm is the mostly used evaluation function, which leads to In case of applying the unified solution (48), we have Analog to the results in [30] and the discussion in the last subsection, it can be proven that the unified solution (48) minimizes MDR under a given FAR, where MDR and FAR are defined in the context of the norm-based residual evaluation.

2.4. Fault Detection Filter Design

fault detection filter (FDF) is a special kind of observer-based FD systems (35) with a constant post-filter and constructed as where the observer gain matrix and the weighting matrix are design parameters. Due to its state space expression and close relation to the observer design, FDF study receives most research attention. The dynamics of residual generator (57) is governed by In the FDF design, the full-decoupling problem is to design and such that while the optimal FD problems are formulated so as to choose matrices that solve the optimization problem [5, 7, 31]

Solution to Optimization Problems (60)–(62)
Because the FDF (57) is a special case of (35), the optimal solutions to optimization problems (60)–(62) can be derived based on the state space realization of the optimal post-filter given by (48), as shown in [24]. A unified optimal solution to optimization problems (60)–(62) is associated to a discrete-time algebraic Riccati system (DTARS) [24, 32]. Assume that is regular, then solve optimization problems (60)–(62) simultaneously, where is the left inverse of a full column rank matrix satisfying and is the stabilizing solution to the DTARS An alternative solution to optimization problem (61), if is regular, is given by where is the left inverse of a full column rank matrix satisfying and is the stabilizing solution to the DTARS Recently, application of LMI-technique (linear matrix inequality) to solve (60) and (61) for continuous LTI systems has been reported [33–36]. The core of those approaches consists in formulating (60) or (61) as a multiobjective optimization problem and solving them based on an iterative computation of two LMIs. It can be proven that these solutions can, in the ideal case, converge to the optimal solution (63). The extension of these results to the discrete FDF is straightforward and will not be discussed in this paper.

At the end of this subsection, we would like to introduce a very interesting result achieved by the comparison study between the well-known Kalman-filter-based residual generation [37] and the unified solution (63). Given system where are independent zero-mean Gaussian white noise processes with , , then a Kalman filter with delivers an innovation as residual signal, where is a prediction of based on the data up to . Comparing the above Kalman filter algorithm with the unified solution (63) makes it clear that both solutions are quite similar. Indeed, (67) can be brought into the general form of (1) by letting and, as a result, (71) can be regarded as a special case of (64). Remember that the Kalman filter delivers, in the context of statistic tests, a minimum MDR under a given FAR. In comparison, in the context of norm-based definition of MDR and FAR, the unified solution (63) provides us with the same result.

3. FD of Discrete-Time Linear Periodic Systems

In this section, we review some recent results on FD in discrete linear time periodic (LTP) systems. LTP is a special kind of linear time-varying systems described by where , and are known bounded and real periodic matrices of period , that is, , , and so forth. There is not only continuous interest and development of periodic control and filtering theory [38–42], but also increasing applications of periodic control in practice like helicopter vibration control, satellite attitude control as well as wind turbine. The FD problem of periodic systems has been considered in [24, 32, 43–45]. Basically, there are two ways to handle the FD problem of LTP systems, as shown below.

3.1. FD Schemes Based on Lifted LTI Reformulation

It is well known that there is a strong correspondence between discrete LTP systems and discrete LTI systems [42]. Therefore, FD system design for the LTP system (72) can be carried out as follows:

(i)lift the LTP system (72) into a discrete LTI system,(ii)design residual generator(s) based on the lifted LTI reformulation,(iii)using either parallel residual generators or select the parameters of the residual generator to satisfy the causality condition.

Let ( ) denote the state transition matrix of LTP system (72) Periodic system (72) can be lifted into a discrete LTI system described by [42] where is an integer between and denoting the initial time, the state vector of the lifted system is , with standing for is the augmented signal defined by where , , , and and are defined in a way similar to .

3.1.1. Observer-Based FD System Design and Implementation

Assume that is detectable. Then is detectable and an observer-based LTI residual generator can be designed based on lifted reformulation (74) as where and are constant matrices and can be designed with FD approaches for the discrete LTI systems introduced in the last section to realize full decoupling or optimal FD. Observer (76) reconstructs the outputs over one period based on the estimation of state vector . Both the state vector of observer (76) and the residual signal are updated every time instants.

In fault detection, the detection delay should be as small as possible. Therefore, it is advantageous if a residual signal can be obtained at each time instant. To this aim,

(i)a bank of LTI residual generators (76) can be used, each of which is designed for , respectively [43]. This scheme is characterized by a simple design but needs much online computational efforts.(ii)If the weighting matrix is designed to satisfy the causality constraint, that is, is a lower block triangular matrix in the form of then, for a given integer , the residual generator (76) can be implemented as In this case, the state estimation is still updated at every time instants, but at each time instant , , a residual signal is calculated from control input and measured outputs available up to the time instant .

3.1.2. Parity-Relation-Based FD System Design and Implementation

Similarly, a parity-relation-based LTI residual generator can be built as follows: where is a constant parity matrix, To get a residual signal at each time instant, we can use a bank of parity-relation-based residual generators, each one for , respectively. Alternatively, we can also impose a structural constant on parity matrix as that is, the last block in is a lower triangular matrix, then for a fixed , residual generator (79) can be implemented in such a way that only control inputs and measured outputs available up to the time instant are needed for the calculation of , .

3.2. FD Schemes Based on Periodic Model

In this subsection, we will show that the parity-space approach and the observer-based FD approach can be directly extended to periodic systems, which do not need the temporary step of lifted LTI reformulation and lead to a simplified design and implementation.

3.2.1. Periodic Parity-Space Approach

The extension of the parity-space approach to periodic systems is straightforward, because the parity-space approach can handle each time instant independently [45]. The input-output relation of periodic system (72) during the moving window can be expressed by While the vectors , and in (82) are built in exactly the same way as in the LTI case according to (6), the matrices , and in (82) are not constant matrices but the following periodic matrices: , and are similar as with replaced, respectively, by , and , .

A periodic residual generator can be built as where is a -periodic parity matrix (or vector) that satisfies , equation (85) represents the residual dynamics.

If the rank condition holds for any , then a full decoupling can be achieved by solving for over one period at . The residual evaluation consists in detecting the deviation of residual from . Especially, if then the full decoupling can be achieved by a constant parity matrix (or vector) . However, condition (88) is rather restrictive in practice.

In case that a full decoupling is not achievable, optimization problems similar to (15)–(17) are formulated as which are solved over one period to get the optimal periodic parity matrix . Because the parity-space approach handles each time instant independently and there is no stability problem, the solutions of problems (87)–(91) at each time instant are independent of each other and can be obtained following the procedures introduced in Section 2.2. The threshold can be calculated by (23) or (26) according to the requirement on FAR, while the residual evaluation function is selected as the amplitude (22) of the residual signal.

If the order of the parity relation (82) is an integer multiple of the period , then the periodic parity-space approach is equivalent with a bank of residual generators (79). In comparison, the periodic parity space approach provides more flexibility. The order of the parity relation needs not to be related to the period . Moreover, may take different values at different time instants. In this case, the threshold for the residual evaluation may need to be chosen differently at different time.

3.2.2. Periodic Observer-Based Approach

Assume that is detectable. A periodic observer-based residual generator can be constructed as where and are -periodic observer gain matrix and weighting matrix, respectively. The residual dynamics is governed by where .

To enhance the robustness of the FD system to the unknown disturbances without loss of the sensitivity to the faults, the optimal design problem is formulated as The solutions of optimization problems (94)-(95) are derived by solving an equivalent optimization problem for the cyclically lifted LTI systems first and then recover the periodic matrices and [24].

Solution to Optimization Problems (94)-(95)
Assume that is regular. Then solve optimization problems (94)-(95) simultaneously, where is the left inverse of a full column rank matrix satisfying , and is the stabilizing solution to the difference periodic Riccati system (DPRS) where , , and . An alternative solution to problem (95), if is regular, is given by where is the left inverse of a full column rank matrix satisfying , and is the stabilizing solution to the DPRS where , , and . It is interesting to note the following connections between different approaches.
(i)Periodic observer-based residual generator (92) can be rewritten into the form of lifted reformulation-based LTI observer (76) with Recalling the discussion in Section 3.1.1, the physical meaning is that the periodic observer-based residual generator naturally satisfies the causality condition. It is further proven that, if the parameters of the periodic observer-based residual generator (92) solve optimization problems (94) or (95), then the parameters of the LTI observer (76) got by (100) will solve optimization problems in the form of (60)-(61).(ii)Similar as in LTI systems, the periodic parity-space approach and periodic observer-based approach are closely related. Assume that the periodic vector satisfies . Then a periodic functional observer-based residual generator in the form of with , , can be readily obtained as [45] where periodic scalars appearing in matrices are free parameters and should be selected to guarantee the stability of . Moreover, if realizes a full decoupling from the unknown disturbances, that is, , then the functional observer-based residual generator (102) also achieves a full decoupling, that is, , . This provides an approach to design full decoupling observer-based residual generator.(iii)We would like to point out that, for the LTI system (1), a residual generator with periodic gain matrix and periodic weighting matrix will not improve the FD performance under performance index (94).

4. FD of Sampled-Data Systems

The study on FD problems of sampled-data (SD) systems has been motivated by the digital implementation of controllers and monitoring systems. Figure 1 sketches a typical application of an FD system in a process control system. The process under consideration is a continuous-time process. Both the controller and the FD system are discrete-time systems which are implemented on a computer system or on an embedded microprocessor. The sensor output signals are discretized by the A/D converters and then fed to the controller as well as to the FD system. The D/A converters convert the discrete-time control input signals into continuous-time signals. Since both continuous-time and discrete-time signals exist in the system, the system design should be indeed considered from the viewpoint of an SD system [46, 47]. The intersample behavior is the main factor that should be considered in developing FD algorithms for the SD systems. In practice, it happens often that the A/D and D/A converters are working at different sampling rates [48–53]. In this section, we will review the FD methods for the SD systems with various sampling mechanisms.

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Figure 1: Schematic description of the application of an FDI system in a process control system.
4.1. System Description

Assume that, in the SD systems, the process is a continuous LTI process represented by where , and are known constant matrices of appropriate dimensions. In single-rate sampled-data (SSD) systems, the A/D converter and the D/A converter are, respectively, described by where is the sampling period, is the sampled process output signal, is the discrete-time control input sequence delivered by the controller program. In multirate sampled-data (MSD) systems, the A/D converters and the D/A converters may work with different sampling rates and thus modeled, respectively, by where and denote, respectively, the sampling periods of the A/D converter in the th output channel and the D/A converter in the th input channel. A more general class of systems are nonuniformly sampled-data (NSD) systems, where the sampling instants may be multirate, asynchronous, and nonequidistantly distributed, that is, where represent the sampling instants in the th output channel and the time instants at which the th control input is updated. It is worth mentioning that a special kind of NSD systems, where the sampling instants are nonequidistant spaced but periodic, has been studied in the literature rather intensively [54–57].

4.2. FD of SSD Systems

Conventionally, an FD system can be designed for the SSD system by indirect approaches, that is,

(i)analog design and SD implementation, or(ii)discrete-time design based on the discretization of the process model. Motivated by the development of sampled-data control [46, 47], in the last years the FD problem of the SSD systems have been studied from the viewpoint of direct design to take into account the intersample behavior and eliminate the approximation made during the design [26, 58–60].

The dynamics of the SSD system at the sampling instants can be described by where It is worth noticing that in SD systems there is a significant difference between and . Due to the D/A converter (106), is a piecewise constant signal. The influence of on is exactly known from the information of and can thus be completely compensated in residual generation. In comparison, and are unknown signals. Hence, the key is to study the influence of continuous-time signals and on the discrete-time sampled output signals and residual signals .

4.2.1. Parity-Relation-Based FD Scheme for SSD Systems

A parity-relation-based residual generator can be used for residual generation, where , , and are constructed according to (6). To describe the intersample behavior, for a continuous-time signal with standing for and , an operator is defined as follows: The residual dynamics can be expressed with the help of operators as The influence of the continuous-time signal over the time interval on the discrete-time signal is measured by where denotes the adjoint of the operator which uniquely satisfies for any vector of compatible dimensions. The optimization problems are thus formulated as An analytical expression can be obtained for as As a result, optimization problems (117) are transformed into some equivalent optimization problems: where and are built based on and in a way similar to in (6). The equivalent optimization problems (119) are of the standard form and can be solved as introduced in Section 2.2.

4.2.2. Observer-Based FD Scheme for SSD Systems

An observer-based residual generator is constructed as To describe the influence of continuous-time signals and on the discrete-time residual signal in the frequency domain, operator ( standing for or ) is introduced as Based on it, the residual dynamics can be expressed as Let be given by (118). Then Based on it, the optimal design problem is solved [59]. Further, it was shown that the and design problems of the SSD system are equivalent to that of a discrete LTI system and can be obtained by solving equivalent optimization problems [26, 60]:

4.2.3. Influence of Sampling on Full Decoupling

No matter which residual generation approach is adopted, due to the sampling effect, the full decoupling becomes more difficult in SD systems than in the original continuous-time systems, because after sampling the dimension of the influence space of the unknown disturbances becomes that is, the equivalent number of the unknown disturbances may increase [58].

4.3. FD of MSD Systems

Under some assumptions, the FD problem of MSD systems has been considered in [61–64]. The MSD system is in nature a periodic system. The system period, denoted by , is the least common multiple of the sampling periods [52]. The maximal common multiplier of the sampling periods is often called base period. From the FD viewpoint, in MSD systems only those time instants with sampled outputs are of interest. In [65], the basic idea of the proposed FD approach is to get the input-output relations of the MSD at the base periods at first and then downsample them according to different sampling periods to get the parity relation of the MSD system. In [66], a so-called fast rate residual generator is proposed, which generates a residual signal as soon as a new measurement is available. The basic idea is to reformulate the MSD system as a system with periodic output equations. The problem of fast rate residual generation is further pursued by [67, 68], where the basic ideas are, respectively, to compute the parity matrix and the post-filter for lifted system model. To satisfy the causality constraint, the freedoms in matrix and are used. Most recently, a unified and simplified approach to the FD of the MSD systems is proposed by [69], which considers the special problem formulation of fault detection and shows clearly the difference between control problem and FD problem. The basic idea of [69] is to remodel the MSD system as a nonuniformly sampled-data system and then use periodic or time varying system theory to design the FD system.

Denote with the sequence of time instants at which one or more sampled outputs are available, . Let represent the vector of sampled output signals at time instant . The dimension of is time-varying and upper bounded by . Let . For the purpose of FD, the MSD system described by (104), (107), and (108) can be equivalently remodeled as where The new description is different from other descriptions available in the literature [66–68] and considers the transition of system dynamics only at the time instants with sampled outputs. The terms and characterize, respectively, the influence of the disturbances and the faults on the sampled outputs. As are available and the models of the D/A converters (108) are known, and thus the influence of the control input vector on the sampled outputs can be completely reconstructed and easily compensated. The matrices and are time varying matrices, as is time-varying with respect to time . In the MSD system, due to the periodicity of the sampling time sequence, are periodic matrices. FD systems can be designed for the MSD system based on the time-varying model (126).

4.3.1. Parity-Relation-Based FD Scheme for MSD Systems

The input-output relationship of (126) over the moving horizon , where denotes the length of the moving horizon, is where , and are stacked vectors based on , and , , respectively, is constructed according to (83), Build a parity-relation-based residual generator with where is a periodically time-varying parity matrix (or vector). To describe the influence of continuous-time signals on the multirate-sampled outputs, linear time-varying operators ( standing for or ), are introduced and the residual dynamics is described by The optimal selection of can be formulated similar to (117) with and substituted by and , respectively. Using the same technique, are derived to be Due to the periodicity of , the optimization problem needs to be solved over one period.

4.3.2. Observer-Based FD Scheme for MSD Systems

For the aim of fault detection, a fast rate time-varying observer-based residual generator can be constructed as where the gain matrix and the weighting matrix are time-varying matrices to be determined. The dimensions of and may change with the number of available sampled output signals. Considering the periodicity of the matrices , (134) can be designed as a periodic observer. Define the state estimation error as . The dynamics of residual generator (134) is governed by Introduce linear time-varying operators ( standing for or ), to rewrite the residual dynamics as To enhance the robustness of the FD system to the unknown disturbances without loss of the sensitivity to the faults, the design problem is formulated as By analyzing , optimization problems (138) are transformed into equivalent optimization problems of discrete LTP system where the -norms of and in (139) have the same upper bounds, respectively, with the -norms of and in (104), the matrices and are time-varying matrices reflecting the sampling effect and satisfy Then, optimization problems (138) can be solved with the approaches introduced in Section 3.2.2.

4.4. FD of NSD Systems

The same design procedures introduced in the last subsection can be applied to the FD of NSD systems by reordering the sampling instants. The main difference lies in that in general NSD systems, are time-varying matrices but not periodic matrices. In consequence, for the NSD systems

(i)if the parity space approach is used, then the time-varying parity matrix needs to be calculated at each time instant,(ii)if the observer-based approach is adopted, then the observer gain matrix needs to guarantee the stability of the resulting linear time-varying system.

4.5. Influence of Sampling Period on Optimal FD Performance

Sampling period is an important parameter in SD systems. Recently, the influence of the sampling period on the optimal FD performance has been investigated in [70, 71]. Suppose that for a given continuous-time process (104) three different sampling schemes are considered: single-rate sampling with sampling period , single-rate sampling with sampling period , multirate sampling with base period and system period , where is an integer. It is proven that the optimal performance indeces are related by That means that, with the increase of the sampling period, the FD performance will become worse. It can be intuitively interpreted as the consequence of information reduction caused by the increase of the sampling period. However, we would like to emphasize that such a conclusion does not hold for all performance indices, for instance, the index.

5. Concluding Remarks

In this paper, standard methods for FD in discrete LTI systems have been reviewed and recent development in FD for discrete LTP and SD systems has been summarized. In case of discrete LTI systems, the basic idea, full decoupling and optimization problems, and the corresponding solutions are introduced. It can be seen that different FD approaches are closely related to each other. The FD problem of discrete LTP systems can be handled either indirectly by lifting or directly by considering the periodicity of the system matrices. In SD systems the main problem is to take into account the intersample behavior and to develop direct FD approaches. With the aid of operators, the FD problem of SSD, MSD, and NSD systems can be transformed, respectively, into the FD problem of discrete LTI, LTP, and linear time-varying systems. The methods introduced in this paper have found several interesting applications in the emerging research area of embedded networked control systems (emNCS) [72, 73]. Because of the limited data rate, the sampling mechanisms become an important design parameter in emNCS and have decisive influence on the real-time network and computing performance and FD performance.

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