Distributed Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control

Distributed systems are formed by the interconnection of several subsystems or autonomous agents. Each entity is equipped with a local computing device that runs the whole or a part of the diagnosis and fault-tolerant control algorithms. This chapter explains the specific features of such systems and provides tools for the design and the coordination of distributed algorithms that achieve the overall diagnosis and control specifications, under given communication structures and local computing power limitations.