Algorithm for the analysis of fault tolerant sensing systems applied to a combat aircraft system

Deals with a fault tolerance analysis of sensor systems. Redundant and minimal sensor sets are organized into an automata which contains all the possible reconfiguration paths for which the state remain observable. To evaluate the robustness of the observability property with respect to sensor losses, a structural property based on strong and weak redundancy degrees is used This analysis has been developed in previous work Hoblos et al. (1991). The approach is applied to a real plant representing a combat aircraft model.