Robust MPC design for fault tolerance of constrained multisensor linear systems

In this paper, a robust fault-tolerant control strategy for constrained multisensor linear systems, subject to sensor faults and in the presence of bounded state and output disturbances is proposed. The scheme verifies that for each sensors estimator combination, suitable residual variables lie inside precomputed sets and selects the more appropriate combination based on a chosen criterion. An active fault tolerant output feedback controller yields an MPC-based control law and by means of the notion of “tube” of trajectories, we ensure robust closed-loop exponential stability and good performance in the fault-free case and under the occurrence of abrupt sensor faults.