Fault detection, diagnosis, and fault tolerant control with flight applications

摘要

Research and development of fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) and fault tolerant control (FTC) are mainly motivated by the enhancement of reliability and fault tolerant capability. It is critical for flight control systems (FCS) to take FDD/FTC into account to ensure safe operation. It still remain as a challenging and active research area and with even much wider applications to air and space vehicles such as civil transportation airplanes, unmanned aerial vehicles, reusable launch vehicles, near space vehicles, satellites, etc. By recognizing the importance of advanced diagnosis and fault tolerant control techniques to such practical applications, this special issue is dedicated to demonstrate and present new research results of fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) and fault tolerant control with applications to any of the above-mentioned flight control vehicles.