Fault Tolerant Flight Control

1. Front Matter

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2. Surviving the Improbable: Towards Resilient Aircraft Control

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introduction

      • Thomas Lombaerts, Hafid Smaili, Jan Breeman

      Pages 3-45

   3. Fault Tolerant Flight Control - A Survey

      • Michel Verhaegen, Stoyan Kanev, Redouane Hallouzi, Colin Jones, Jan Maciejowski, Hafid Smail

      Pages 47-89

   4. Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Aeronautic and Aerospace Missions

      • David Henry, Silvio Simani, Ron J. Patton

      Pages 91-128

   5. Real-Time Identification of Aircraft Physical Models for Fault Tolerant Flight Control

      • Ping Chu, Jan Albert (Bob) Mulder, Jan Breeman

      Pages 129-155

   6. Industrial Practices in Fault Tolerant Control

      • Philippe Goupil

      Pages 157-167

3. RECOVER: The Benchmark Challenge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. RECOVER: A Benchmark for Integrated Fault Tolerant Flight Control Evaluation

      • Hafid Smaili, Jan Breeman, Thomas Lombaerts, Diederick Joosten

      Pages 171-221

   3. Assessment Criteria as Specifications for Reconfiguring Flight Control

      • Thomas Lombaerts, Diederick Joosten, Hafid Smaili, Jan Breeman

      Pages 223-243

4. Design Methods and Benchmark Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245

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   2. Fault Tolerant Control Using Sliding Modes with On-Line Control Allocation

      • Halim Alwi, Christopher Edwards

      Pages 247-272

   3. An Adaptive Fault-Tolerant FCS for a Large Transport Aircraft

      • Adolfo Sollazzo, Gianfranco Morani, Andrea Giovannini

      Pages 273-291

   4. Subspace Predictive Control Applied to Fault-Tolerant Control

      • Redouane Hallouzi, Michel Verhaegen

      Pages 293-317

   5. Fault-Tolerant Control through a Synthesis of Model-Predictive Control and Nonlinear Inversion

      • D. A. Joosten, T. J. J. van den Boom, M. Verhaegen

      Pages 319-336

   6. A FTC Strategy for Safe Recovery against Trimmable Horizontal Stabilizer Failure with Guaranteed Nominal Performance

      • Jérome Cieslak, David Henry, Ali Zolghadri

      Pages 337-361

   7. Flight Control Reconfiguration Based on Online Physical Model Identification and Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion

      • Thomas Lombaerts, Ping Chu, Jan Albert (Bob) Mulder

      Pages 363-397

   8. A Combined Fault Detection, Identification and Reconfiguration System Based around Optimal Control Allocation

      • Nicholas Swain, Shadhanan Manickavasagar

      Pages 399-422

   9. Detection and Isolation of Actuator/Surface Faults for a Large Transport Aircraft

      • Andras Varga

      Pages 423-448

5. Real-Time Flight Simulator Assessment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 449-449

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The European Flight Mechanics Action Group FM-AG(16) on Fault Tolerant Control, established in 2004 and concluded in 2008, represented a collaboration involving thirteen European partners from industry, universities and research establishments under the auspices of the Group for Aeronautical Research and Technology in Europe (GARTEUR) program. The book consists of five parts. Part I contains the introduction and motivation of this research project and a state-of-the-art overview in Fault Tolerant Flight Control (FTC). Part II includes the description of the benchmark challenge, consisting of details of the benchmark simulation model and the assessment criteria used to evaluate the performance of the Fault Tolerant Controllers. Part III covers all the different FDI/FTC design methods which have been applied to the benchmark simulation model. There are two different evaluation methods for these FDI/FTC designs, namely an off-line evaluation using the assessment criteria in the benchmark simulation model in Matlab, and an on-line evaluation on Delft’s SIMONA Research Simulator. The off-line evaluations are described in the individual chapters in part III, whereas the latter is treated extensively in part IV where the real time assessments on the SIMONA Research Simulator are introduced and discussed. Finally part V focuses on a review of the applied methods from an industrial perspective together with some concluding remarks.

• Advanced Flight Control
• Analysis
• Fault Detection and Isolation
• Fault Tolerant Control
• Identification
• Reconfigurable Control
• Resilient Aircraft Control
• model
• optimal control
• simulation
• system

• University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

  Christopher Edwards

• Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  Thomas Lombaerts

• National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Hafid Smaili

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