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Recently, a consistent push towards a “more electrical” approach for drive systems in the aerospace and automotive industries has fueled interest in condition monitoring and prediction of impending electronic system failures and remaining useful life (RUL) of critical components. The ever-expanding use of the electrical actuator and power drives significantly increases the possibilities of applying reconfiguration techniques under fault condition for extended operation of electric machinery, including electrical actuators. Consequently, operation in the fault tolerant mode has a growing interest and potential wide-spread application. The modern actuator mainly consists of a brushless DC motor (BLDC) that is composed of stator winding, a permanent magnet rotor and Hall Effect sensors.