27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-5.4.4

AN ADAPTIVE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY FOR IMPROVED FLIGHT SAFETY

L. G. Crespo, M. Matsutani*, A. Annaswamy*
National Institute of Aerospace, USA; *MIT, USA

Keywords: adaptive control, flight control, engine control, control verification

This paper evaluates the improvements in safety and performance resulting from using an adaptive controller for the Generic Transport Model. This is achieved by evaluating the degradation in closed-loop performance resulting from uncertainties and failures of increasing levels of severity.

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