Envelope Estimation and Protection of Innovative Control Effectors (ICE) Aircraft: A Probabilistic Approach

Loss of control is considered as the primary cause of fatal accidents in aviation, which occurs when the aircraft has left the safe flight envelope. To reduce loss-of-control-related accidents, it is important to estimate the safe flight envelope at the current flight condition and integrate it into flight control system design. This task is...

Nonlinear Control Allocation for a High-Performance Tailless Aircraft with Innovative Control Effectors: An Incremental Robust Approach

Conventional linear control allocation (LCA) methods fail to provide satisfactory performance in flight control systems (FCS) for aircraft with highly nonlinear and coupled control effector suites, especially for tailless aircraft with strong interactions between control effectors. This thesis implements an incremental nonlinear control...