This paper deals with the issues of sensor fault estimation, actuator fault detection and isolation for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems. By taking the sensor fault vector as a part of an extended state vector, the original system with sensor faults, actuator faults and unknown inputs is transformed into an augmented singular system which is just with actuator faults and unknown inputs. For the constructed singular system, a robust sliding-mode observer is developed to simultaneously estimate the states and sensor faults of original system, and the observer gain matrices are computed in terms of linear matrix inequalities by solving an optimization problem. Then an actuator fault detector is designed to detect actuator faults when ones occur, and multiple observers used as actuator fault isolators are proposed to identify which actuator is with fault. Finally, a simulation example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.
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