Summary
This paper investigates the issues of fault estimation and fault‐tolerant control for a class of uncertain time‐varying delay nonlinear Markovian jump systems with simultaneous actuator and sensor faults. Firstly, by analyzing and reformulating the original system, a Markovian robust sliding‐mode observer is introduced to provide simultaneous estimations of the state and faults. Secondly, a novel stochastic integral sliding surface function is designed, and the sufficient criteria is derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities, which guarantees that the sliding‐mode dynamics and error system are asymptotically stable with definite appointed H∞ performance disturbance attenuation level. Then, a robust sliding‐mode control law scheme is sought to ensure the reachability of the sliding surface in a finite time interval. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed methodology is verified by numerical and practical examples.