Introduction

Abstract

Recent years have witnessed a strong interest and intensive research activities in the area of networked autonomous unmanned vehicles, such as spacecraft formation flight, unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, automated highway systems and multiple mobile robots. The envisaged networked architecture can provide surpassing performance capabilities and enhanced reliability; however, it requires extending the traditional theories of control, estimation, and Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI). Among the many challenges for these systems is development of autonomous cooperative control and estimation strategies that can maintain the group behavior and mission performance in presence of undesirable events such as failures and faults in the vehicles. In order to achieve this goal, the team should have the capability to detect and isolate vehicles faults and reconfigure the cooperative control algorithms to compensate for them. The main objective of this book is to explore the fault detection and isolation issues in networked multi-vehicle unmanned systems.