This book presents a framework named CFT-SOAP for fault tolerant mission planning with a specific type of spacecraft mission as an application. Although the material is mostly targeted for Aerospace community, but the real purpose shall be served if this concept is taken up and used in other domains as well. The key idea is to use the knowledge of the dynamics of the system as well as the knowledge of composition of the system to help develop a mission execution policy that includes detection, avoidance, and reconfiguration for the possible faults in the system. Fault tolerance is not the...