Guest Editorial Special Issue on Fault Diagnosis and Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control for Automatic Control Systems

摘要

Due to the recent rapid developments in communication and networking technologies as well as computer science, the complexity of automatic control systems has increased significantly. To ensure the safety and the reliability of such systems under continuous operation, real-time supervision and control systems have now to run in parallel. These developments challenge scientists and engineers to come up with advanced fault diagnosis (FD) and fault-tolerant control (FTC) approaches that can monitor the abnormal changes in automatic control systems promptly. The objective is to maintain safe operating conditions that avoid severe performance degradation. The tasks involved in meeting the objective consist of fault detection, estimation, localization, isolation, feasible control strategies, and maintenance actions.