Process Control Systems

The great advances made in large-scale integration of semiconductors, the resulting cost-effective digital processors and data storage devi­ ces, and the development of suitable programming techniques are all having increasing influence on the techniques of measurement and con­ trol and on automation in general.

The problem of fault diagnosis and reconfigurable control is a new and actually developing field of science and engineering. The subject becomes more interesting since there is an increasing demand for the navigation and control systems of aerospace vehicles, automated actuators etc. to be more safe and reliable.