Mogens Blanke Editor & Author

Mogens Blanke is professor in automation and control at the Technical University of Denmark and adjunct professor at Institute of Technical Cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research interests include autonomous and fault-tolerant systems, fault diagnosis and systems architecture design to obtain desired safety properties. Professor Blanke’s experiences include the development of fault-tolerant control for the Danish Ørsted satellite, for marine automation and control, for mobile robots and for diagnosis for small aircrafts. Professor Blanke is Technical Editor for Fault-Tolerant Systems for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and he is Associate Editor for Control Engineering Practice.

Michel Kinnaert is professor in the Department of Control Engineering and System Analysis at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). He has held a visiting professor position at the LAGEP at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and a postdoctoral position at the University of Newcastle (Australia). His research interests include fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control for linear and nonlinear systems with applications in the process industry, in mechatronics and in wind farms. Professor Kinnaert has been the chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee SAFEPROCESS.

Jan Lunze is professor of automatic control and head of the Institute of Automation and Computer Control at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany). His researc

h interests include fault diagnosis and reconfigurable control of discrete-event and hybrid systems, control theory with applications in the automotive and process industries, and networked control systems, where he has been the coordinator of a priority program of the German Research Foundation. He is author of numerous research papers and of monographs and textbooks on control theory, discrete-event systems and artificial intelligence with applications to dynamical

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Marcel Staroswiecki is Honorary Professor of automatic control at the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (France). He is the former head of the Laboratoire d’Automatique et d’Informatique Industrielle de Lille (LAIL-CNRS) and is currently with the Laboratoire SATIE-CNRS at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. Professor Staroswiecki and his group have been working on fault detection, isolation and recovery algorithms since 1986. His research addresses model, signal and data-based approaches to the supervision of complex and embedded systems with emphasis on structural analysis, intelligent instruments and components, and applications in the process industry and to transportation systems.