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Fault-Tolerant Control

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A closed-loop control system for an engineering process may have unsatisfactory performance or even instability when faults occur in actuators, sensors, or other process components. Fault-tolerant control (FTC) involves the development and design of special controllers that are capable of tolerating the actuator, sensor, and process faults while still maintaining desirable and robust performance and stability properties. FTC designs involve knowledge of the nature and/or occurrence of faults in the closed-loop system either implicitly or explicitly using methods of fault detection and isolation (FDI), fault detection and diagnosis (FDD), or fault estimation (FE). FTC controllers are reconfigured or restructured using FDI/FDD information so that the effects of the faults are reduced or eliminated within each feedback loop in active or passive approaches or compensated in each control-loop using FE methods. A non-mathematical outline of the essential features of FTC systems is given with important definitions and a classification of FTC systems into either active/passive approaches with examples of some well-known strategies.

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    Ron J. Patton

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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    Tariq Samad

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Patton, R.J. (2014). Fault-Tolerant Control. In: Baillieul, J., Samad, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5102-9_226-1

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