Preface of the special issue on Advances in Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems
Résumé
Today's automatic control systems are of high degrees of integration, complexity, embedding and networking of heterogeneous entities. This trend is driven by the industrial needs for achieving new technical performance and meeting additional performance demands. A most critical and important issue surrounding the design and operation of complex automatic systems is the application of Fault Detection and Isolation and Fault-Tolerant Control (FDI/FTC) technology, aiming at guaranteeing high system performance over a wide operating range and meeting the requirements on system safety, reliability, availability and dependability. Although FDI/FTC has been developed in the framework of systems and control theories, it is mainly dedicated to the individual solutions for fault detection, diagnosis and fault tolerant control at the real time level. In order to cope with the industrial trends and demands, an FDI/FTC framework should be established in the context of fault management, health awareness and self-healing, and on a multi-disciplinary fundament with control, communication and computer sciences as its core. It is with these ideas in mind that the first edition of the Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems, SysTol'10, held in Nice, France, on 6-8 October 2010, was organized. The focus of the Conference was on new developments and applications of FDI/FTC and gathered the best international specialists. This special issue of AMCS is built around 14 selected contributions from this Conference, for which the authors were required to propose extended and enhanced versions of their work, and 3 complementary regular papers whose topics lie in this research area.
Domaines
Automatique / Robotique
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