A historical overview is presented about the research in reconflgurable flight control. The term 'reconfigurable flight control' is used to refer to software algorithms designed specifically to compensate for failures or damage of flight control effectors or lifting surfaces, using the remaining effectors to generate compensating forces and moments. Initial research and flight testing approaches are discussed based on explicit fault detection, isolation, and estimation, as well as later approaches based on continuously adaptive and intelligent control algorithms. In addition, approaches for trajectory reshaping of an impaired aircraft with reconflgurable inner loop control laws are briefly dealt with. Finally, current implementations of reconfigurable control are treated in order to improve safety on production and flight test aircraft and remaining challenges to enable broader use of the technology, such as the difficulties of flight certification of these types of approaches.


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    Title :

    Historical overview of research in reconfigurable flight control


    Additional title:

    Historischer Überblick über die Forschungstätigkeiten auf dem Gebiet der rekonfigurierbaren Flugregelung


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2005


    Size :

    13 Seiten, 91 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English







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    Pachter, M. | Online Contents | 2005


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    Pachter, M / Nelson, E B | SAGE Publications | 2005