When a fault occurs in a system, the main problem to be addressed is to raise an alarm, ideally diagnose what fault has occurred, and then decide how to deal with it. The problem of detecting a fault, finding the source/location and then taking appropriate action is the basis of fault tolerant control. In this chapter, an introduction to fault tolerant control (FTC) and fault detection and isol...

An architecture for fault tolerant feedback controllers based on the Youla parameterization is suggested. It is shown that the Youla parameterization will give a residual vector directly in connection with the fault diagnosis part of the fault tolerant feedback controller. It turns out that there is a separation between the feedback controller and the fault tolerant part. The closed loop feedba...

This paper presents the integrated fault-tolerant control scheme for nonlinear system with multi-fault. After the unknown faults are estimated online by using the fuzzy credit assignment CMAC (FCACMAC), the effective control law reconfiguration strategy based on the sliding mode control technique is used to compensate for the effect of multifault. For multiple faults scenarios and three-tank sy...

This paper proposed an observer based fault-tolerant control approach for the fuzzy T-S systems with sensors and actuators faults. By establishing the actuator fault and sensor fault models, an observer based fuzzy output feedback fault tolerant controller is developed and new stabilization conditions of the fuzzy fault tolerant control systems are given, which are formulated in terms of linear...

The mathematical modeling of open-switch faults in two-level machine-side converters and the fault-tolerant current control of isotropic permanent-magnet synchronous generators are discussed. The proposed converter model is generic for any open-switch fault and independent of the operation mode of the electrical machine. The proposed fault-tolerant current control system gives improved control ...

K-connectivity-based topology control can improve fault-tolerant performance of multi-hop wireless networks. Existing algorithms mainly focused on preserving the same k-connectivity between any two nodes. However, in practical network deployments, the algorithms enforcing k-connectivity degrade network performance, when the topology requires heterogeneous nodal fault-tolerant requirements. In t...