Corresponding author. Dexiao Xie was born in 1984. He is a Ph.D. candidate in School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology. His research interests include networked control systems and fault tolerant control. E-mail: xdx_115 @yahoo.com.cn Xiaodong Hart was born in 1983. He is a Ph.D. candidate in School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology. His research interest is fault tolerant control. He Huang was born in 1981. He is a Ph.D. candidate in School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology. His research interest is networked control systems. Zhiquan Wang was born in 1939. He is a professor in School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology. His research interests include fault diagnosis, fault tolerant control, modeling and control of complex systems, and chaos control.