Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control and Guidance for Aerospace
demonstrates the attractive potential of recent developments in control
for resolving such issues as flight performance, self protection and
extended-life structures. Importantly, the text deals with a number of
practically significant considerations: tuning, complexity of design,
real-time capability, evaluation of worst-case performance, robustness
in harsh environments, and extensibility when development or adaptation
is required. Coverage of such issues helps to draw the advanced concepts
arising from academic research back towards the technological concerns
of industry.
Initial coverage of basic definitions and ideas and a literature review
gives way to a treatment of electrical flight control system failures:
oscillatory failure, runaway, and jamming. Advanced fault detection and
diagnosis for linear and linear-parameter-varying systems are described.
Lastly recovery strategies appropriate to remaining
actuator/sensor/communications resources are developed.
