Industrial applications such as aviation systems widely suffer from a particular type of fault known as No-Fault-Fault (NFF). Term NFF points to the fact that real failure remains hidden during the general troubleshooting due to its random nature. Hence, the potential failure cannot be fixed by evaluating technicians, and of course, it profoundly adds to the maintenance costs. Cause of NFF is attributed to various issues including oxidation, mechanical stresses (vibration) electromagnetic fields, poor design and bad/wrong operation. They cause various intermittency issues in, for instance, chassis, PCBs, connectors, cables and wires as the system gradually ages. The intermittent fault is a malfunction of a device or system that occurs at intervals (presenting irregularity) in a device or system that functions normally at other times. In many industrial applications such as in-line replaceable unit (LRU) of aviation systems, intermittent faults found in the power chain of a system can be cascaded into other electronic circuitry, processors, microcontrollers, and memories causing random intermittent failures.<br>Applicants are invited to investigate the impact of intermittency on control systems and conduct research in designing No-Fault-Found resistant control. The student will have the opportunity to work with National Instruments products including Compact-Rio and Labview in developing control systems, fault injection and emulation, collaborating with experts in the prognostics, diagnostics and condition monitoring field, as well as being part of our active and dynamic research centre at Cranfield.