Magdi S. Mahmoud & Yuanqing Xia 
Analysis and Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Control Systems 

In recent years, control systems have become more sophisticated
in order to meet increased performance and safety requirements for
modern technological systems. Engineers are becoming more aware
that conventional feedback control design for a complex system may
result in unsatisfactory performance, or even instability, in the
event of malfunctions in actuators, sensors or other system
components. In order to circumvent such weaknesses, new approaches
to control system design have emerged which can tolerate component
malfunctions while maintaining acceptable stability and
performance. These types of control systems are often known as
fault-tolerant control systems (FTCS). More precisely, FTCS are
control systems which possess the ability to accommodate component
failure automatically.

Analysis and Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Control Systems
comprehensively covers the analysis and synthesis methods of fault
tolerant control systems. It unifies the methods for developing
controllers and filters for a wide class of dynamical systems and
reports on the recent technical advances in design methodologies.
MATLAB® is used throughout the book, to demonstrate methods of
analysis and design.

Key features:

* Provides advanced theoretical methods and typical
practical applications

* Provides access to a spectrum of control design methods
applied to industrial systems

* Includes case studies and illustrative examples

* Contains end-of-chapter problems

Analysis and Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Control Systems
is a comprehensive reference for researchers and practitioners
working in this area, and is also a valuable source of information
for graduates and senior undergraduates in control, mechanical,
aerospace, electrical and mechatronics engineering departments.

Über den Autor

Magdi Sadek Mahmoud obtained Ph. D. in systems engineering
from Cairo University, 1974. He has been a professor of engineering
since 1984. He is now a Distinguished University Professor at
KFUPM, Saudi Arabia. He worked at different universities
world-wide including Egypt, Kuwait, UAE, UK, USA,
Singapore and Australia.He lectured in Venezuela,
Germany, UK, USA, Canada and China. He has been
actively engaged in teaching and research in the development of
modern methodologies to distributed control and filtering, switched
time-delay systems, fault-tolerant systems and information
technology. He is the principal author of thirty (30) books,
inclusive book-chapters and the author/co-author of more than
500 peer-reviewed papers. He is the recipient of two
national, one regional and four university prizes for outstanding
research in engineering. He is a fellow of the IEE, a senior
member of the IEEE, the CEI (UK), and a registered
consultant engineer of information engineering and systems
(Egypt).

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Dr. Yuanqing Xia received his M.S. degree in Fundamental
Mathematics from Anhui University, China, in 1998 and his Ph.D.
Degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Beijing
University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China, in
2001. From 1991-1995, he was with Tongcheng Middle-School, Anhui,
China, where he worked as a teacher. During January 2002-November
2003, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Institute of
Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, where he worked on
navigation, guidance and control. From November 2003 to February
2004, he was with the National University of Singapore as a
research fellow, where he worked on variable structure control.
From February 2004 to February 2006, he was with the University of
Glamorgan, Pontypridd, U.K., as a Research Fellow, where he worked
on networked control systems. From February 2007 to June 2008, he
was a Guest Professor with Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck,
Austria, where he worked on biomedical signal processing. Since
July 2004, he has been with the Department of Automatic Control,
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, first as an Associate
Professor, then, since 2008, as a Professor and in 2012. He has
published five monographs in Springer and more than 100 papers in
journals. He was appointed as „Xu Teli‘ distinguished professor in
Beijing Institute of Technology and obtained National Science
Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China. He was
obtained Second Award of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology
(No.1) in 2010 , Second National Award for Science and Technology
(No.2) in 2011, and second natural science award of The
Ministry of Education in 2012. He is an editor in deputy of Journal
of Beijing Institute of Technology, associate editor of Acta
Automatica Sinica, International Journal of Innovative Computing,
Information and Control.