Table of Contents

1. The Development of Safety Control Systems 2. Hybrid Fault-Tolerant Control System Design against Actuator Failures 3. Safety Control System Design against Control Surface Impairments 4. Multiple Observers based Anti-Disturbance Control for a
Quadrotor UAV 5. Safety Control System Design of HGV based on Adaptive TSMC 6. Safety Control System Design of HGV based on Fixed-Time Observer 7. Fault Accommodation with Consideration of Control Authority and Gyro Availability

About the Author

Xiang Yu is a Professor with the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China. His research interests include safety control of aerospace engineering systems, guidance, navigation, and control of unmanned aerial vehicles.

Lei Guo, appointed as "Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor", is a Professor with the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University. His research interests include anti-disturbance control and filtering, stochastic control, and fault detection with their applications to aerospace systems.

Youmin Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering, Concordia University. His research interests include fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control, cooperative guidance, navigation and control (GNC) of unmanned aerial/space/ground/surface vehicles.

Jin Jiang is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. His research interests include fault-tolerant control of safety-critical systems, advanced control of power plants containing non-traditional energy resources, and instrumentation and control for nuclear power plants.