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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2010, Article ID 586169, 25 pages doi:10.1155/2010/586169 Review Article A Survey of Some Recent Results on Nonlinear Fault Tolerant Control Mouhacine Benosman Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore, 5A, Engineering Drive 1, 9-02, Singapore 117411 Correspondence should be addressed to Mouhacine Benosman, tslmb@.sg Received 19 June 2009; Accepted 7 September 2009 Academic Editor: Jose Balthazar Copyright q 2010 Mouhacine Benosman. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Fault tolerant control FTC is the branch of control theory, dealing with the control of systems that become faulty during their operating life. Following the systems classification, as linear and nonlinear models, FTC can be classified in two different groups, linear FTC LFTC dealing with linear models, and the one of interest to us in this paper, nonlinear FTC NFTC, which deals with nonlinear models. We present in this paper a survey of some of the results obtained in these last years on NFTC. 1. Introduction Due to the complexity of modern engineering systems, it is increasingly important to ensure their reliability. This has motivated researchers to concentrate on FTC, which is primarily meant to ensure safety, that is, the stability of a system after the occurrence of a fault in the system. There are two approaches to synthesize controllers that are tolerant to system faults. One approach, known as passive FTC, aims at designing a controller which is a priori robust to some given expected faults. Another approach, known as active FTC, relies on the availabi