This invention discloses a distributed adaptive fault-tolerant control method and
system for nonlinear inline systems, relating to the field of distributed control technology for nonlinear inline systems. The method includes: for each subsystem in the nonlinear inline
system, constructing the actual output of each
actuator in the subsystem based on the fault type of the
actuator; the nonlinear inline
system includes several subsystems; for each subsystem, constructing a local objective function, an error optimizer, an
auxiliary system, high-
gain parameters, and a control law, and generating an optimal error trajectory based on the local objective function and the error optimizer. At the upper level, this invention designs an error optimizer to generate the optimal error trajectory based on a local objective function that converges to zero; at the lower level, it designs a trajectory tracking fault-tolerant controller with the help of an
auxiliary system, employing a dynamic high-
gain approach to adaptively
handle the effects of uncertain parameters,
actuator faults, and unknown strong inline
coupling.