[Special issue on] Safety, Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control in Aerospace Systems

This paper gives an overview of recent progress in theory and methods to analyze and design fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control techniques for aerospace systems. Passive and active approaches are presented and analyzed. Strongpoint and shortcomings of each approach are pointed out. Open problems related to the topic are also highlighted. The paper is written in a tutorial fashion to summarize some of the recent results in the subject area without going into details. A bibliographical review summarizing a decade of references is provided to allow interested readers to obtain more detailed information about the recent contributions in the field. Since the general areas of Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) and Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) draws from a number of different technical areas in engineering and applied mathematics, no survey paper could hope to capture all existing contributions in the field.