Event‐triggered fault detection filter design for networked switched systems with all subsystems unstable and cyber attacks

Summary This article focuses on the issue of event‐triggered fault detection filters (FDF) design for networked switched systems. Compared with the existing fault detection literature, this article investigates the situation that all subsystems are unstable, and considers that stochastic cyber attacks will disrupt fault detection. An event‐triggered mechanism (ETM) that excludes Zeno behavior naturally is designed to economize limited network resources. Then considering the ETM‐induced delay term, the dynamics of the initial system combined with the ETM, fault detection filters, and the effects of cyber attacks are formulated as a new augment switched delayed residual model. Based on the constructed multiple piecewise discretized Lyapunov–Krasovskii function (MPDLKF) and the mode‐dependent dwell time (MDDT) method, sufficient conditions are obtained to guarantee globally mean‐square uniformly asymptotically stability of the new augment system. Moreover, a co‐design method of ETM matrices and FDF gains is proposed. Finally, simulation results are provided to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.