Perspectives and Future Directions of Research

In this book, we have been interested in design and analysis of fault detection and isolation (FDI) strategies for networked multi-vehicle unmanned systems. This problem is timely and important due to the fact that one of the main challenges in these systems is developing an autonomous cooperative control solution that can maintain the group or team behavior and mission performance in presence of undesirable events such as faults in vehicles. In order to have an autonomous network of unmanned vehicles, fault detection and isolation schemes should be developed that are capable of detecting and isolating faults in the vehicles. The approach and framework that is proposed and presented here is based on geometric FDI. We have formulated and introduced several problems within the domain of multi-vehicle systems and obtained some very novel results.