| Pt. I |   | Introduction, basic concepts and preliminaries |   |   | 
| 1 |   | Introduction |   | 3 | 
| 2 |   | Basic ideas, major issues and tools in the observer-based FDI framework |   | 13 | 
| 3 |   | Modelling of technical systems |   | 21 | 
| 4 |   | Structural fault detectability, isolability and identifiability |   | 51 | 
| Pt. II |   | Residual generation |   |   | 
| 5 |   | Basic residual generation methods |   | 71 | 
| 6 |   | Perfect unknown input decoupling |   | 115 | 
| 7 |   | Residual generation with enhanced robustness against unknown inputs |   | 161 | 
| 8 |   | Residual generation with enhanced robustness against model uncertainties |   | 247 | 
| Pt. III |   | Residual evaluation and threshold computation |   |   | 
| 9 |   | Norm based residual evaluation and threshold computation |   | 281 | 
| 10 |   | Statistical methods based residual evaluation and threshold setting |   | 311 | 
| 11 |   | Integration of norm based and statistical methods |   | 335 | 
| Pt. IV |   | Fault detection, isolation and identification schemes |   |   | 
| 12 |   | Integrated design of fault detection systems |   | 369 | 
| 13 |   | Fault isolation schemes |   | 403 | 
| 14 |   | On fault identification |   | 441 | 
|   |   | References |   | 463 | 
|   |   | Index |   | 471 |