Reliable nonlinear control system design by using strictly redundant control elements

This paper is concerned with the single-contingency reliable controller design problem for nonlinear systems. A procedure for designing reliable nonlinear controllers is presented for nonlinear systems with strictly redundant sensors and strictly redundant actuators. The resulting closed-loop nonlinear systems are reliable in the sense that they provide guaranteed local internal stability and H performance not only when all sensors and actuators are operational but also when any one, but only one, sensor or actuator experiences an outage. An example is given to illustrate the design procedure and the effectiveness of the proposed methods.