Fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control methods for manned and unmanned helicopters: A literature review

With the development of unmanned helicopters, the dependability of helicopters have attracted more and more attention of many researchers. In order to deal with these problems, fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control methods were used for manned or unmanned helicopter platforms. This paper presents an overview of the existing works on fault diagnosis, including analytical/model-based, signal processing-based and knowledge-based techniques, and passive/active fault tolerant control approaches for helicopters mainly with single rotor. Before the main part of the review, a short description of fault classification is presented. Compared with the former work, this review contains some in-depth discussion of various fault diagnosis techniques and a survey for fault tolerant control methods.