Automatic Flight Control Systems - Latest Developments

Edited by: Thomas Lombaerts



ISBN 978-953-307-816-8, Hard cover, 204 pages

Publisher: InTech

Publication date: January 2012

The history of
flight control is inseparably linked to the history of aviation itself.
Since the early days, the concept of automatic flight control systems
has evolved from mechanical control systems to highly advanced automatic
fly-by-wire flight control systems which can be found nowadays in
military jets and civil airliners. Even today, many research efforts are
made for the further development of these flight control systems in
various aspects. Recent new developments in this field focus on a wealth
of different aspects. This book focuses on a selection of key research
areas, such as inertial navigation, control of unmanned aircraft and
helicopters, trajectory control of an unmanned space re-entry vehicle,
aeroservoelastic control, adaptive flight control, and fault tolerant
flight control. This book consists of two major sections. The first
section focuses on a literature review and some recent theoretical
developments in flight control systems. The second section discusses
some concepts of adaptive and fault-tolerant flight control systems.
Each technique discussed in this book is illustrated by a relevant
example.

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