“…In the last years though, due to advances in computing and communications mainly, the focus of the research activities is directed mostly towards the development of hierarchical (Klinkhieo & Patton, 2009; R. J. Patton et al, 2007), decentralized (Ferdowsi, Raja, & Jagannathan, 2012;Léchevin & Rabbath, 2009;Stankovic, Ilic, Djurovic, Stankovic, & Johansson, 2010;Wei, Gui, Xie, & Ding, 2009;X. Zhang, Polycarpou, & Parisini, 2009) and distributed (Boem, Ferrari, & Parisini, 2011;Ferrari, Parisini, & Polycarpou, 2012;Keliris, Polycarpou, & Parisini, 2013a;Yan, Tian, & Shi, 2008) schemes for process or sensor faults.…”