Fault Tolerance – Background and Recent Trends

International audienceIn this article, several schemes related to the field of Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI), Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD), and Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) are presented both from a theoretical perspective and, more importantly, from an application perspective. The focus of the applications is the aeronautical domain and they cover a range of projects undertaken during the last two decades. These projects (some of them were funded by European Commission) showcase the time-line followed in Europe for the evolution and transfer of aircraft Fault Detection, Identification and Reconfiguration (FDIR), which include the FDI/FDD/FTC modules, from the academic to the industry sector