Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems (SysTol) 2010

Faults/failures cause undesired reactions and consequences as damage to technical parts of plants, to human life or to the environment and a profound impact also on production cost and product quality. The design of early faults/failures detection methods is crucial in order to preserve the machinery or human life safety and then to make the right decisions on emergency actions and repairs. Moreover, in highly automated industrial systems where maintenance or repair cannot be carried-out immediately, it is crucial to design Fault Tolerant systems capable of ensuring nominal performance when taking into account the occurrence of such faults. The conference will bring together academics and engineers active in the field of fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control and their implication in the Monitoring and Maintenance.