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Thus, it clearly seems that the approaches described above cannot be rigorously applied to the biological WWTP because they are not detectable for such unknown inputs. Indeed, in the general context of the observer s... 

Do not be confused with the unknown inputs observers theory in which the goal is to estimate state variables of a system subjected to unmeasured inputs. Here, the goal is precisely to estimate these unknown inputs and not only certain state variables. 

System diagnosis frequently lies on a model that represents the normal behavior of a particular process to be supervised. The fundamental problem comes then from the inaccuracies associated with the model, either related to the ignorance of the kinetics or its parameters, or related to the ignorance of its inputs. Within the framework of this chapter, the interest is focused on the detection and location of sensor faults in the presence of unknown inputs. Among the existing solutions based on observers, one can distinguish the approaches based on non-linear unknown inputs observers (see for example, [21],... 

In this section an innovating approach based on the use of a battery of interval observers functioning in parallel is presented. Such an approach allows us to detect a violation of the assumptions related to the unknown inputs (substrates concentrations at the input of the process). In order to illustrate the principle of this approach, consider again a mono-biomass, mono-substrate bioprocess within a CSTR, described by equations (3) to which the dynamics of one of the products, represented by P, has been added ... 

M. Darouach, M. Zasadzinski, and S.J. Liu. Full-order observers for hnear systems with unknown inputs. IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., 39(3) 606-609, 1994. 

Although there is a close relationship among the various quantitative model-based techniques, observer-based approaches have become very important and diffused, especially within the automatic control community. Luenberger observers [1,45, 53], unknown input observers [44], and Extended Kalman Filters [21] have been mostly used in fault detection and identification for chemical processes and plants. Reviews of several model-based techniques for FD can be found in [8, 13, 35, 50] and, as for the observer-based methods, in [1, 36,44],... 

The literature focused on model-based FD presents a few applications of observers to chemical plants. In [10] an unknown input observer is adopted for a CSTR, while in [7] and [21] an Extended Kalman Filter is used in [9] and [28] Extended Kalman Filters are used for a distillation column and a CSTR, respectively in [45] a generalized Luenberger observer is presented in [24] a geometric approach for a class of nonlinear systems is presented and applied to a polymerization process in [38] a robust observer is used for sensor faults detection and isolation in chemical batch reactors, while in [37] the robust approach is compared with an adaptive observer for actuator fault diagnosis. 

Since perfect knowledge of the model is rarely a reasonable assumption, soft computing methods, integrating quantitative and qualitative modeling information, have been developed to improve the performance of observer-based schemes for uncertain systems [36], Major contributions to observer-based approaches can be found in [39, 56] as well, where fault isolation is achieved via a bank of observers, while identification is based on the adoption of online universal interpolators (e.g., ANNs whose weights are updated on line). As for the use of observers in the presence of advanced control techniques, such as MPC or FLC, in [44] an unknown input observer is adopted in conjunction with an MPC scheme. 

Keywords Fault detection and isolation Fault diagnosis Hybrid systems Bond graph Analytical redundancy Unknown input observer... 

An observer is defined as an unknown input observer (UIO) if its state estimation error vector approaches zero asymptotically regardless of the presence of the unknown inputs, i.e., disturbances, in the system. 

Calculation of matrices N, G, and L completes the construction of the full-order unknown input observer. 

The minimization of the expected risk given by Eq. (1) cannot be explicitly performed, because P(, y) is unknown and data are not available in the entire input space. In practice, an estimate of 7(g) based on the empirical observations is used instead with the hope that the function that minimizes the empirical risk 7g p(g) (or objective function, as it is most commonly referred) will be close to the one that minimizes the real risk 7(g). 

The procedure outlined above represents an immersion of the exosystem into an observable system (19), which can generate, for some appropriate initial conditions, the exact steady-state input for all the values of the parameter in a suitable neighborhood. Since these initial conditions are also unknown, the structure of the immersion will be used in the controller to estimate asymptotically the required exact steady-state input required. This feature will allow the controller to incorporate the desirable robustness property. 

The theory of interval observers first introduced by Rapaport et ai, [35], [55], establishes that, a necessary condition for designing such interval observers is that a known-inputs observer exists i.e., any observer that can be derived if b t) is known). If such an observer exists and if b t) is unknown i.e., only lower and upper bounds are known), the structure of this observer may be used to build an interval observer. In this section, this first requirement is cover by choosing an asymptotic observer as a basis for the interval structure. Indeed, in addition to be a known-inputs observer, the asymptotic observer has the property to be robust in the face of uncertainties on nonlinearities i.e., it permits the exact cancellation of the non-linear terms). 

The interval observer implementation was also implemented through numerical simulations which were carried out over a 100 days period at different dilution rates and at different input substrate concentrations but, in this case, it was considered that input concentrations were unknown and only guaranteed intervals of these inputs were known (see Figures 39 to 42). 

Quantum chemistry provides data that improves understanding of chemical kinetics. The data is further used as input for parameterizing transport and deposition models or chemical reaction schemes in models of various other atmospheric processes. As documented in many of the articles in this special edition, theoretical techniques are tested through comparison to laboratory measurements and atmospheric observations, and then further applied towards predicting mechanisms and reaction rates which are currently unknown. 

Triphenylphosphinoxide occurred sporadically at the upper reaches (loads < 20 g/d, Fig. 15). Downstream the Seseke river mouth, loads of up to 132 g/d were determined whereas downstream site 5 the highest loads of up to 2302 g/d were observed. Similar to hexachlorobutadiene, a sudden increase of loads below sampling site 5 suggests its input from a point source. Triphenylphosphinoxide is a product of industrial synthesis and likely originates from the same industrial source as hexachlorobutadiene. It was not detected in effluent of the sewage treatment plant in Hamm (see Part I), hence its presence at the upper reaches of the river is probably due to additional industrial point sources. Triphenylphosphinoxide has not been noticed as a contaminant so far and its behaviour in the environment is unknown. 

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