Advanced Sensors and Observer Technologies for Intelligent State Estimation and Fault Diagnosis
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Fault Diagnosis & Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 June 2027 | Viewed by 126
Editor
Interests: unknown input observer design; disturbance observer design; fault diagnosis; fault detection and fault-tolerant control; security control for CPS; security state estimation; cooperative control for multi-agent system; attack detection for CPS and MAS; T-S fuzzy model control; sliding mode robust control
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Dear Colleagues,
In modern control theory and control engineering, sensors play an important role in measuring crucial system state information, which is indispensable for controller design. However, due to economic considerations or the limitations of physical structures, it is usually impossible to deploy sensors to measure all states of most practical systems, especially complex networked control systems. Therefore, observer technologies are frequently introduced into controller design. Furthermore, since both actuators and sensors usually work at high frequencies under harsh conditions, they are prone to malfunctions, which can result in faults. Consequently, fault diagnosis—including fault detection, fault reconstruction and fault-tolerant control—has become a challenging issue in recent decades, and remains an important research topic for complex networked systems, including cyber–physical systems (CPSs), multi-agent systems (MASs), and multi-sensor systems. For complex network systems, information communication is inevitable and introduces an additional link that is absent in single control systems. This communication link brings many new challenges, among which malicious attacks are particularly critical. Therefore, resilient control, which focuses on secure state estimation, malicious attack detection, malicious signal reconstruction, and robust control against malicious attacks, has become one of the major concerns for complex network systems in recent years. This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances in distributed observer designs, security state estimation, fault or malicious attack detection, fault-tolerant control, and resilient control for CPSs and MASs. We welcome contributions addressing new observer techniques, intelligent state estimation, fault-tolerant control, and resilient control.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Distributed observer designs for multi-sensor systems and MASs;
- State estimation for CPSs and MASs under malicious attacks;
- Fault detection, fault reconstruction and fault-tolerant control for CPSs and MASs；
- Resilient and security control of CPSs and MASs under malicious attacks, including FDI, DoS, deception attacks and so on;
- Event-triggered control for CPSs and MASs；
- Distributed cooperative control for MASs based on robust control and disturbance compensation techniques.
Prof. Dr. Fanglai Zhu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- observer
- state estimation
- distributed coperative control
- fault detection
- fault reconstruction
- fault-tolerant control
- malicious attacks
- resilient control
- security control
- complex network systems
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