This book reports the development of fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control (FTC) methods
with their application to real plants. After an introduction to fault diagnosis and FTC a
chapter on actuators and sensors in systems with varying degrees of nonlinearity leads to three
chapters in which the design of FTC systems is given thorough coverage for real applications: a
winding machine typifying a subsystem in various sheet and film processes a hydraulic 3-tank
system representative of those used widely in chemical plants and an active suspension system
demonstrating application in whole large-scale systems by splitting into subsystems. Actuator
and sensor faults are accommodated within the control-law design and the integration of fault
diagnosis models in the FTC systems described. Linearized systems around an operating point and
nonlinear systems are discussed and illustrated. A complete simulation platform of the 3-tank
system is provided via download from www.springer.com ISBN 978-1-84882-652-6.
