06.1 - Flight Dynamics and Control (Control & Modelling)
AUTOPILOT DESIGN OF AN UNSTABLE FIGHTER USING MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL
M.T. Morales¹, M.A. Rempel, Embraer, Brazil; M.A.V. Morales¹, J.E.M. Fernandes¹; ¹ITA, Brazil
Model Predictive Control (MPC) has been widely studied for flight control systems due to its inherent fault-handling capabilities enabled by analytical redundancy. This work investigates the design of autopilot functions using nonlinear MPC to perform altitude hold and flight-level change, evaluated on the nonlinear ADMIRE aircraft model.