As the first review in this field, this paper presents an in-depth mathematical view of
Intelligent Flight Control Systems (IFCSs), particularly those based on artificial neural …

This article presents a historical overview of research in reconfigurable flight control. For the
purpose of this article, the term 'reconfigurable flight control'is used to refer to software …

In the application of adaptive flight control, significant issues arise due to limitations in the
plant inputs, such as: actuator displacement limits, actuator rate limits, linear input dynamics …

AVIATION safety research is concerned with many aspects of safe and reliable operation of
today's modern aircraft. Although air travel remains the safest mode of transportation …

Helicopters are versatile machines that can perform aggressive maneuvers. This is evident
from the wide range of acrobatic maneuvers executed by expert pilots. Helicopters have a …

As a nonlinear underactuated plant, double inverted pendulum on a cart (DIPC) poses a
challenging control problem. It seems to have been one of attractive tools for testing linear …

This paper designs an incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion control law for free-flying
flexible aircraft, which can regulate rigid-body motions, alleviate gust loads, reduce the wing …

In the application of adaptive flight control, significant issues arise due to limitations on the
plant inputs, such as actuator displacement limits. The concept of utilizing a modified …

This paper presents a recent study of a damaged generic transport model as part of a NASA
research project to investigate adaptive control methods for stability recovery of damaged …

A flight control design is presented that combines model inversion control with an online
adaptive neural network (NN). The NN cancels the error due to approximate inversion. Both …