Sensor Fault Detection and Compensation with Performance Prescription for Robotic Manipulators

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel adaptive observer and terminal sliding mode control law for robotic manipulators, enabling sensor fault detection and compensation with prescribed performance and fixed-time stability, verified through numerical simulations.

Contribution

The paper presents a new fault detection and compensation method using an adaptive observer and terminal sliding mode control that does not require fault bounds, with guaranteed stability and performance.

Findings

Effective sensor fault detection without fault bounds

Fast, fixed-time fault-tolerant control with prescribed performance

Demonstrated performance improvements over existing methods

Abstract

This paper focuses on sensor fault detection and compensation for robotic manipulators. The proposed method features a new adaptive observer and a new terminal sliding mode control law established on a second-order integral sliding surface. The method enables sensor fault detection without the need to know the bounds on fault value and/or its derivative. It also enables fast and fixed-time fault-tolerant control whose performance can be prescribed beforehand by defining funnel bounds on the tracking error. The ultimate boundedness of the estimation errors for the proposed observer and the fixed-time stability of the control system are shown using Lyapunov stability analysis. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified using numerical simulations on two different robotic manipulators, and the results are compared with existing methods. Our results demonstrate performance gains obtained by the proposed method compared to the existing results.