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Fault-tolerant control (FTC) aims at making technological systems tolerant to faults. This means that the system should fulfill its function also after the appearance of degradation or failure in its components, such as actuators or sensors. Specifically, the field is concerned with systems whose function depends on functioning feedback control loops. Feedback controllers process measurement information into control actions, producing the desired effect in the plant only if the involved actuators and sensors function properly. Actuators and sensors are, however, subject to inevitable faults, and fault-tolerant controllers should nevertheless maintain the system’s main functionality. This monograph focusses on actuator and sensor faults.
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Richter, J.H. (2011). Introduction to Reconfigurable Control. In: Reconfigurable Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 408. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17628-9_1
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