The increasing complexity of modern engineering systems will correspondingly increase the possibility of system faults and/or failures. The occurrence of sensor, actuator, and/or component failures may dramatically degrade system performance and even result in catastrophic system collapse. As a response to high requirement for system safety, reliability, and survivability, fault diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control (FTC) for dynamic systems have been attractive subjects of many investigations in control community and have received considerable attention during the past few decades, and a great deal of research progress has been made.

We invite researchers to contribute original research and application articles as well as review articles that will stimulate the continuing efforts to develop new diagnostic methods and their applications to engineering areas. We are particularly interested in articles exploring new theories for fault detection, estimation/reconstruction, fault isolation, and FTC.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Recent developments in fault diagnosis and practice
• Observer-based fault detection, isolation, and reconstruction
• Observer-based FTC and their applications
• Data-based fault diagnosis
• Neural network and fault diagnosis
• Artificial intelligence and fault diagnosis
• Application of fault-diagnostic strategies to engineering including power systems, nuclear plants, renewable energy systems, chemical and manufacturing plants, and paper-making industry