Journal of Control Science and Engineering
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 265189, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/265189
Research Article

Reliability Monitoring of Fault Tolerant Control Systems with Demonstration on an Aircraft Model

Hongbin Li,1 Qing Zhao,1 and Zhenyu Yang2

1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2V4, AB, Canada
2Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Niels Bohrs Vej 8, Esbjerg 6700, Denmark

Received 4 April 2007; Revised 6 September 2007; Accepted 13 November 2007

Academic Editor: Kemin Zhou

Copyright © 2008 Hongbin Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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