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Extended state observer-based fault-tolerant control for an unmanned surface vehicle under asynchronous injection and deception attacks (2024)
Journal Article
Wang, H., Liu, C., Huang, X., Zhong, Y., Qu, D., & Patton, R. J. (2024). Extended state observer-based fault-tolerant control for an unmanned surface vehicle under asynchronous injection and deception attacks. Complex Engineering Systems, 4(3), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.20517/ces.2024.19

This paper explores the problem of fault-tolerant control concerning an underactuated unmanned surface vehicle affected by actuator faults and disturbances in the physical layer and multiple cyber threats (time-varying delays, injection attacks, and... Read More about Extended state observer-based fault-tolerant control for an unmanned surface vehicle under asynchronous injection and deception attacks.

Improving Thermal Performance of Buildings using Smart Inspections and Peltier-driven Heat Recovery (2024)
Thesis
Shariq, M. H. Improving Thermal Performance of Buildings using Smart Inspections and Peltier-driven Heat Recovery. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4860398

Buildings account for 40% of overall carbon emissions in the UK which have significant impacts on the environment. The overconsumption of energy for heating and cooling is primarily caused by thermal leakages due to building defects. Existing techniq... Read More about Improving Thermal Performance of Buildings using Smart Inspections and Peltier-driven Heat Recovery.

Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Control of Vehicle Platoon Systems With DoS Attacks (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, C., Xia, Z., & Patton, R. J. (in press). Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Control of Vehicle Platoon Systems With DoS Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2024.3406608

Vehicle platoon systems are regarded as autonomous vehicles in the platooning pattern, in which vehicles drive in sequence and maintain the desired inter-vehicle spacing. This paper investigates the platoon control problem of vehicle platoon dynamics... Read More about Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Control of Vehicle Platoon Systems With DoS Attacks.

Energy Maximization of Control for a Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter (2024)
Thesis
Li, D. Energy Maximization of Control for a Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4704554

To date, one of the main challenges and requirements in wave energy technologies is to design energy-maximising control for a wave energy converter (WEC) device to achieve the energy maximization production, so as to reduce the levelized cost of ener... Read More about Energy Maximization of Control for a Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter.

Distributed Event-triggered Fault-tolerant Consensus Control of Multi-agent Systems under DoS Attacks (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, C., Jiang, B., Li, Y., & Patton, R. J. (2024). Distributed Event-triggered Fault-tolerant Consensus Control of Multi-agent Systems under DoS Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, 10, 390-402. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSIPN.2024.3384814

This study investigates the distributed fault-tolerant consensus issue of multi-agent systems subject to complicated abrupt and incipient time-varying actuator faults in physical hierarchy and aperiodic denial-of-service (DoS) attacks in networked hi... Read More about Distributed Event-triggered Fault-tolerant Consensus Control of Multi-agent Systems under DoS Attacks.

Fault-Tolerant Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems Subject to Multiple Faults and Random Attacks (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, C., Wang, W., Jiang, B., & Patton, R. J. (in press). Fault-Tolerant Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems Subject to Multiple Faults and Random Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2024.3351214

This paper explores the consensus control problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) under complex cyber-physical threats (CPTs), which encompass sensor/actuator faults, input/output channel noises, and random cyber-attacks. The multiple sensor/... Read More about Fault-Tolerant Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems Subject to Multiple Faults and Random Attacks.

Distributed finite-time adaptive fault-tolerant consensus control of second-order multi-agent systems under deception attacks (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, C., Wang, W., Yu, Z., & Patton, R. J. (in press). Distributed finite-time adaptive fault-tolerant consensus control of second-order multi-agent systems under deception attacks. International journal of adaptive control and signal processing, https://doi.org/10.1002/acs.3750

This study addresses the issue of distributed fault-tolerant consensus control for second-order multi-agent systems subject to simultaneous actuator bias faults in the physical layer and deception attacks in the cyber layer. Cyber-physical threats (m... Read More about Distributed finite-time adaptive fault-tolerant consensus control of second-order multi-agent systems under deception attacks.

Interval Observer-Based Fault Detection and Isolation for Quadrotor UAV with Cable-Suspended Load (2024)
Journal Article
Zhu, X., Li, Y., Yin, G., & Patton, R. J. (2024). Interval Observer-Based Fault Detection and Isolation for Quadrotor UAV with Cable-Suspended Load. IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics. Systems, 54(10), 5876-5888. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2024.3411315

This article proposes an actuator fault detection and isolation (FDI) scheme for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a cable-suspended load. First, a linear parameter-varying (LPV) model of quadrotor UAV is established, in which the effects... Read More about Interval Observer-Based Fault Detection and Isolation for Quadrotor UAV with Cable-Suspended Load.

Defense and Tolerance Technique Against Attacks and Faults on Leader-Following Multi-USVs (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, C., Xia, Z., Tian, Y., & Patton, R. J. (in press). Defense and Tolerance Technique Against Attacks and Faults on Leader-Following Multi-USVs. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2023.3330570

This study explores the leader-following consensus tracking control issue of multiple unmanned surface vehicles (multi-USVs) in the presence of malicious connectivity-mixed attacks in the cyber layer, and concurrent output channel noises, sensor/actu... Read More about Defense and Tolerance Technique Against Attacks and Faults on Leader-Following Multi-USVs.

Sensor Fault Tolerant Control for a 3-DOF Helicopter Considering Detectability Loss (2023)
Journal Article
Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, Z., Wang, X., & Patton, R. (2023). Sensor Fault Tolerant Control for a 3-DOF Helicopter Considering Detectability Loss. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2023.3303153

This paper proposes a novel active fault tolerant control (FTC) scheme for a 3-degree-of-freedom (3-DOF) helicopter with sensor faults. As a challenge, only attitude angles are considered available, so that when the sensors measuring the elevation/tr... Read More about Sensor Fault Tolerant Control for a 3-DOF Helicopter Considering Detectability Loss.

The wave energy converter control competition (WECCCOMP): Wave energy control algorithms compared in both simulation and tank testing (2023)
Journal Article
Ringwood, J. V., Tom, N., Ferri, F., Yu, Y. H., Coe, R. G., Ruehl, K., …Faedo, N. (2023). The wave energy converter control competition (WECCCOMP): Wave energy control algorithms compared in both simulation and tank testing. Applied Ocean Research, 138, Article 103653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2023.103653

The wave energy control competition established a benchmark problem which was offered as an open challenge to the wave energy system control community. The competition had two stages: In the first stage, competitors used a standard wave energy simula... Read More about The wave energy converter control competition (WECCCOMP): Wave energy control algorithms compared in both simulation and tank testing.

Model Predictive Energy-Maximising Tracking Control for a Wavestar-Prototype Wave Energy Converter (2023)
Journal Article
Li, D., & Patton, R. (2023). Model Predictive Energy-Maximising Tracking Control for a Wavestar-Prototype Wave Energy Converter. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 11(7), Article 1289. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11071289

To date, one of the main challenges in the wave energy field is to achieve energy-maximizing control in order to reduce the levelized cost of energy (LCOE). This paper presents a model predictive velocity tracking control method based on a hierarchic... Read More about Model Predictive Energy-Maximising Tracking Control for a Wavestar-Prototype Wave Energy Converter.

Improved control strategies for the environment within cell culture bioreactors (2023)
Journal Article
Jones, J., Kindembe, D., Branton, H., Lawal, N., Montero, E. L., Mack, J., …Montague, G. (2023). Improved control strategies for the environment within cell culture bioreactors. Food and Bioproducts Processing, 138, 209-220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fbp.2023.02.004

This paper describes the development of improved control strategies for the standard environmental conditions in a fed-batch bioreactor used for monoclonal antibody cell culture. The consequences of relying on fixed parameter PID based controllers ar... Read More about Improved control strategies for the environment within cell culture bioreactors.

Decentralized Fault Estimation and Distributed Fault-tolerant Tracking Control Co-design for Sensor Faulty Multi-agent Systems with Bidirectional Couplings (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, C., Yu, Z., & Patton, R. J. (2023). Decentralized Fault Estimation and Distributed Fault-tolerant Tracking Control Co-design for Sensor Faulty Multi-agent Systems with Bidirectional Couplings. International journal of control, automation and systems, 21, 810-819. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-021-1038-4

This study proposes a co-design framework of decentralized fault estimation and distributed fault-tolerant tracking control schemes of Lipschitz nonlinear multi-agent systems with external disturbances and unpredicted sensor faults. To begin with, th... Read More about Decentralized Fault Estimation and Distributed Fault-tolerant Tracking Control Co-design for Sensor Faulty Multi-agent Systems with Bidirectional Couplings.

Actuator fault tolerant offshore wind turbine load mitigation control (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, Y., Patton, R. J., & Shi, S. (2023). Actuator fault tolerant offshore wind turbine load mitigation control. Renewable energy, 205, 432-446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2023.01.092

Offshore wind turbine (OWT) rotors have large diameters with flexible blade structures which are subject to asymmetrical loads caused by blade flapping and turbulent or unsteady wind flow. Rotor imbalance inevitably leads to enhanced fatigue of blade... Read More about Actuator fault tolerant offshore wind turbine load mitigation control.

Fault-tolerant consensus control of multi-agent systems under actuator/sensor faults and channel noises: A distributed anti-attack strategy (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, C., Zhao, J., Jiang, B., & Patton, R. J. (2023). Fault-tolerant consensus control of multi-agent systems under actuator/sensor faults and channel noises: A distributed anti-attack strategy. Information Sciences, 623, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2022.12.003

This study investigates the fault-tolerant consensus control problem of multi-agent systems subject to simultaneous actuator/sensor faults and channel noises in physical hierarchy and hostile connectivity-mixed attacks in cyber hierarchy. Actuator/se... Read More about Fault-tolerant consensus control of multi-agent systems under actuator/sensor faults and channel noises: A distributed anti-attack strategy.

An iterative strategy for robust integration of fault estimation and fault-tolerant control (2022)
Journal Article
Lan, J., & Patton, R. (2022). An iterative strategy for robust integration of fault estimation and fault-tolerant control. Automatica : the journal of IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control, 145, Article 110556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2022.110556

This paper considers fault estimation (FE) and fault-tolerant control (FTC) for linear parameter varying systems with actuator and sensor faults, uncertainties, and disturbances. The inevitable coupling between the FE and FTC functions needs to be ta... Read More about An iterative strategy for robust integration of fault estimation and fault-tolerant control.

Distributed Antittack Fault-Tolerant Tracking Control for Vehicle Platoon Systems Under Cyber-Physical Threats (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, C., Zhao, J., & Patton, R. J. (2023). Distributed Antittack Fault-Tolerant Tracking Control for Vehicle Platoon Systems Under Cyber-Physical Threats. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 19(6), 7825-7834. https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2022.3171343

Vehicle platoon systems are considered as automatous vehicles in a platoon-based driving pattern in which a following vehicle follows the preceding vehicle and maintains the desired vehicle spacing. This article investigates the leader-following trac... Read More about Distributed Antittack Fault-Tolerant Tracking Control for Vehicle Platoon Systems Under Cyber-Physical Threats.

Aggressive maneuver oriented robust actuator fault estimation of a 3-DOF helicopter prototype considering measurement noises (2021)
Journal Article
Wang, T., Lu, M., Zhu, X., & Patton, R. (2022). Aggressive maneuver oriented robust actuator fault estimation of a 3-DOF helicopter prototype considering measurement noises. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 27(3), 1672-1682. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2021.3087193

This paper presents a robust actuator fault estimation strategy design for a 3-DOF helicopter prototype which can be adapted to aggressive maneuvers. First, considering large pitch angle condition during flight, nonlinear coupling characteristic of t... Read More about Aggressive maneuver oriented robust actuator fault estimation of a 3-DOF helicopter prototype considering measurement noises.

Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Tracking Control of Multi-Agent Systems under Fixed and Switching Topologies (2021)
Journal Article
Patton, R. J., Liu, C., Jiang, B., & Zhang, K. (2021). Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Tracking Control of Multi-Agent Systems under Fixed and Switching Topologies. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 68(4), 1646-1658. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2021.3049347

This paper proposes a novel distributed fault-tolerant consensus tracking control design for multi-agent systems with abrupt and incipient actuator faults under fixed and switching topologies. The fault and state information of each individual agent... Read More about Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Tracking Control of Multi-Agent Systems under Fixed and Switching Topologies.