A desktop environment for assessment of fault diagnosis based fault tolerant flight control laws

We present a simulation based software environment conceived to allow an easy assessment of fault diagnosis based fault tolerant control techniques. The new tool is primary intended for the development of advanced flight control applications with fault accommodation abilities, where the requirements for increased autonomy and safety play a premier role.

I. INTRODUCTION

Fault tolerant control (FTC) based on fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) is a complex task including aspects of several disciplines like [1] •

fault detection, isolation and identification

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optimal, adaptive and robust control

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reconfigurable/restructurable control

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computing, communication, real-time implementation, simulation and display techniques.