Some Remarks on Fault-Tolerant Dynamic Control Allocation for Weakly Redundant Systems

We consider the problem of control allocation for weakly redundant systems subject to actuator faults. In particular, the design of a suitable allocator will be devised with the aim of compensating for the fault effects while, at the same time, keeping the control burden as low as possible. To this goal, two approaches can be followed for the synthesis of the allocation servomechanism: direct allocation using orthogonal projection and optimization-based allocation. Some numerical examples illustrate and highlight advantages, disadvantages and limitations of both strategies.