Special Session on “FDI/FTC Applications” for CCCA’11 March 5-3, 2011 - Hammamet, Tunisia http://www.hypersciences.org/ccca11

Session Chair(s) - A. Aitouche, [email protected] - H. Chafouk, [email protected] Session Description The theory of Fault Detection and Fault Tolerant Control has been widely developed these last years. The objective of this invited session is to present FDI/FTC techniques applied to benchmark systems (laboratory systems) or simulation of realistic model of an industrial system. Many methods applied to real systems do not take into account the fault diagnostic module and consider that the fault has already been detected and isolated. The main objective of FDI research area is that to study methodologies for identifying and exactly characterizing possible incipient faults arising in predetermined parts of the plant. The phase of FDI is usually followed by the design of a fault tolerant control (FTC) namely by the design of a reconfiguration unit which, on the basis of the faults identified, performs control reconfiguration in order to achieve prescribed performances also for the faulty system. Robust Control methods could be considered as passive FTC methods. Keywords: FDI, FTC, Robust controller. Session Topics Control applications Fault Detection and Isolation Robust Control Fault Tolerant Control Submission: Authors are requested to provide a full paper of 6 pages maximum written in English, in accordance with the template format of the conference. The authors are requested to submit their draft papers online at

http://www.hypersciences.org/ccca11 Important dates:

November 7, 2010: deadline for paper submission December 13, 2010: notification of acceptance/reject January 14, 2011: deadline for final paper submission January 14, 2011: Deadline for author registration