“…For decades, FD has proved to be a vitally important part contributing to safety critical systems. Compared to data-driven method (Li, Jiang, Zhou, Jiang, & Kong, 2019;Yuan, Zhang, Wu, Zhu, & Ding, 2017;Zheng, Mao, Liu, Wong, & Wang, 2016), the model-based FD approach has received particular attention due to the availability of physical models for many practical systems, and a great CONTACT Yong Zhang zhangyong77@wust.edu.cn number of excellent results have been reported in the literature, see e.g. Zhang, Wang, and Alsaadi (2018), Zhang, Wang, Ma, and Alsaadi (2019) and the references therein.…”