Modern technological systems rely on sophisticated control functions to
meet increased performance requirements. For such systems, Fault
Tolerant Control Systems (FTCS) need to be developed. Active FTCS are
dependent on a Fault Detection and Identification (FDI) process to
monitor system performance and to detect and isolate faults in the
systems. The main objective of this book is to study and to validate
some important issues in real-time Active FTCS by means of theoretical
analysis and simulation. Several models are presented to achieve this
objective, taking into consideration practical aspects of the system to
be controlled, performance deterioration in FDI algorithms, and
limitations in reconfigurable control laws.