Aerospace vehicles are by their very nature a crucial environment for
safety-critical systems. By virtue of an effective safety control
system, the aerospace vehicle can maintain high performance despite the
risk of component malfunction and multiple disturbances, thereby
enhancing aircraft safety and the probability of success for a mission.
Autonomous Safety Control of Flight Vehicles presents a systematic
methodology for improving the safety of aerospace vehicles in the face
of the following occurrences: a loss of control effectiveness of
actuators and control surface impairments; the disturbance of
observer-based control against multiple disturbances; actuator faults
and model uncertainties in hypersonic gliding vehicles; and faults
arising from actuator faults and sensor faults. Several fundamental
issues related to safety are explicitly analyzed according to aerospace
engineering system characteristics; while focusing on these safety
issues, the safety control design problems of aircraft are studied and
elaborated on in detail using systematic design methods. The research
results illustrate the superiority of the safety control approaches put
forward.
The expected reader group for this book includes undergraduate and
graduate students but also industry practitioners and researchers.
About the Authors:
Xiang Yu is a Professor with the School of Automation Science and
Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China. His research
interests include safety control of aerospace engineering systems,
guidance, navigation, and control of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Lei Guo, appointed as "Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor", is a
Professor with the School of Automation Science and Electrical
Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China. His research interests
include anti-disturbance control and filtering, stochastic control, and
fault detection with their applications to aerospace systems.
Youmin Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial
and Aerospace Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec,
Canada. His research interests include fault diagnosis and
fault-tolerant control, and cooperative guidance, navigation, and
control (GNC) of unmanned aerial/space/ground/surface vehicles.
Jin Jiang is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer
Engineering, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. His research
interests include fault-tolerant control of safety-critical systems,
advanced control of power plants containing non-traditional energy
resources, and instrumentation and control for nuclear power plants.
