Advances in Industrial Control / Robust Observer-Based Fault Diagnosis for Nonlinear Systems Using MATLAB®; .

Introduction.- Detection and Isolation of Actuator Faults.- Detection and Isolation of Sensor Faults.- Robust Estimation of Actuator Faults.- Robust Estimation of Sensor Faults.- Simultaneous Estimation of Actuator and Sensor Faults Using SMO and AO.- Simultaneous Estimation of Actuator and Sensor Faults Using SMO and UIO.- Simultaneous Estimation of Actuator and Sensor Faults for Descriptor Systems.- Conclusions and Future Work.- Appendices: Solving Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) Problems; Proof of Lemma 3.1.

Jian Zhang received his PhD degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2013. His main research interests include robust nonlinear control and fault diagnosis. He has published 14 refereed journal and conference papers on fault diagnosis, nonlinear filters and nonlinear system identification.

Akshya Swain received his PhD degree from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering of The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom in 1997. He has published over 140 referred journal and conference papers on nonlinear system identification, nonlinear control, control of wireless power transfer systems, wireless sensor networks and biomedical signal processing. He is currently on the editorial board of two international journals.


Sing Kiong Nguang received the PhD degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. Currently, he is a Chair Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has published over 300 refereed journal and conference papers on nonlinear control design, nonlinear control systems, nonlinear time-delay systems, nonlinear sampled-data systems, biomedical systems modeling, fuzzy modeling and control, biological systems modeling and control, and food and bioproduct processing. He has served on the editorial board of a number of international journals, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Sensors, Wireless Communications and Control.