Estimating the Faults/Attacks using a Fast Adaptive Unknown Input Observer: An Enhanced LMI Approach

This paper deals with the problem of robust fault estimation for the Lipschitz nonlinear systems under the influence of sensor faults and actuator faults. In the proposed methodology, a descriptor system is formulated by augmenting sensor fault vectors with the states of the system. A novel fast adaptive unknown input observer (FAUIO) structure is proposed for the simultaneous estimation of both faults and states of a class of nonlinear systems. A new LMI condition is established by utilizing the \(\mathcal{H}_\infty\) criterion to ensure the asymptotic convergence of the estimation error of the developed observer. This derived LMI condition is deduced by incorporating the reformulated Lipschitz property, a new variant of Young inequality, and the well-known linear parameter varying (LPV) approach. It is less conservative than the existing ones in the literature, and its effectiveness is compared with the other proposed approaches. Further, the proposed observer methodology is extended for the disturbance-affected nonlinear system for the purpose of the reconstruction of states and faults with optimal noise attenuation. Later on, both designed approaches are validated through an application of a single-link robotic arm manipulator in MATLAB Simulink.