Yufei Xu was born in 1984. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate with the College of Automation Engineering in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Her research interests include nonlinear control and fault tolerant control for hypersonic vehicles. Ernail: xyfnuaa@yahoo.com.cn Corresponding author.Bin Jiang was born in 1966. He received the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 1995. He had ever been a postdoctoral fellow or a research fellow in Singapore, France and USA, respectively. Now he is a professor and vice dean of College of Automation Engineering in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. His research interests are fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control and their applications. Email: binjiang@nuaa.edu.cn Zhifeng Gao was born in 1980. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate with the College of Automation Engineering in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His research interests include fuzzy control, reliable control and their applications in aeronautics and astronautics. Ke Zhang was born in 1981. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Automation Engineering at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His research interests include fault tolerant control for linear and nonlinear systems and their applications.