Decentralized Fault Tolerant Control for a Class of Interconnected Nonlinear Systems

This paper proposes a decentralized fault tolerant methodology for a class of interconnected nonlinear systems. The key novelty of our proposed method is that fault tolerant control can be achieved without necessarily exchanging the state information between the subsystems and the couplings' effect can be dealt with utilizing the cyclic-small-gain methodology. Simulation results demonstrate effectively the validity of our proposed approach.