Fault Tolerant Control and Hybrid Systems

Abstract

Both research areas of fault tolerant control (FTC) and hybrid systems (HS) have been developed separately for several decades, and fruitful results appeared respectively. However, until now, the FTC problem of HS has not yet attracted enough attention, and needs to be investigated due to its academic meaning as well as practical one. Many modern complex systems have to be modeled by HS and their safety and reliability are quite important. This naturally motivates to study FTC for HS, which is the topic of this book. In this chapter, we shall describe the relations between HS and FTC, and present some examples of HS as well as their fault behaviors. Based on these examples, we formulate the problems to be solved in this book.