ABSTRACT
This chapter first introduces the background and motivations on the design of safety control schemes for unmanned flight vehicles with the cost-effective, mobile, deployable characteristics. Then, the importance of fault-tolerant control investigations is highlighted by analyzing the hardware and analytical redundancy concepts. Especially, the existing robust mechanism/observer/Nussbaum/adaptive learning-based fault-tolerant control results are analyzed for unmanned flight vehicles. Moreover, the fractional-order control strategies with non-conventional calculus are detailedly analyzed for various dynamical systems. Finally, the organization of this monograph is outlined.
