Non-linear and Adaptive Flight Control

Safety and survivability of modern civil and military aircraft when airframe and structural failures have occurred in flight have become a key issue in the aerospace industry nowadays. This course introduces nonlinear and adaptive control techniques to enhance reconfigurabilities of aircraft flight control systems. Advanced nonlinear and adaptive control techniques such as Adaptive Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (ANDI), Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (INDI), Adaptive Backstepping (ABS) and Incremental Backstepping are described together with applications to fault tolerant and reconfigurable aircraft flight control system designs. Unconventional yet available control effectors are used through control allocation algorithms to achieve required performance.