In this paper the application of observers to monitoring, failure detection and fault diagnosis in aircraft flight control systems is discussed in detail. New results concerning the design of parameter-insensitive observers are presented. The feasibility of real-time implementation of a monitoring and failure detection and diagnosis scheme on multiple transputers is investigated and it is shown that the real-time performance specifications can be met and that the method could be used in practice.
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