Computer aided design of failure detection and identification and adaptive reconfigurable control systems for aerospace applications

The paper describes a systematic computer-aided design procedure for failure detection and identification (FDI) and adaptive reconfigurable control (ARC) for aerospace applications. The overall approach is based on a decentralized FDI-ARC scheme integrating separate modules for sensor, control effector and engine FDI with that for structural damage FDI. One of the important issues in this context is information exchange among the modules. In the paper we focus on the module for FDI-ARC in the presence of control effector failures, and describe our approach as well as future work in this area.