The memorandum provides the reader with a detailed overview of the Advanced Automatic Flight Control Systems (AAFCS) research project, pursued by the Disciplinary Group for Stability and Control, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology (TUD). Since the start of the project in 1978, an ever growing number of students have devoted their research efforts to the realization of a thorough foundation of knowledge and a number of practical applications in the field of automatic flight control. Hardware, ranging from a moving-base flight simulator to a fully equipped DHC-2 'Beaver' laboratory aircraft, has enabled the students to apply the results of their theoretical research to the practice of real flight. The main text of this memorandum is devoted to the current subprojects which make out the AAFCS research project, and the hardware -- both in-use and projected -- that can be put to use in AAFCS research at the TUD. The list of publications, presented in an Appendix to this text, constitutes a good indication of the work done so far.
Advanced Automatic Flight Control Systems Project
1993
41 pages
Report
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English