After years of boom, drones and their applications are now entering indoors. Six-degree-of-freedom (6-DoF) pose tracking is the core of drone flight control, but existing solutions cannot be directly applied to indoor scenarios due to insufficient ...

We survey the progress in data mining methods for spacecraft health monitoring. The main emphasis is placed on the analysis of telemetry data enabling the identification of spacecraft states that are atypical during normal operation and the ...

This paper addresses the design of flight control for a micro air vehicle type quad‐rotor, which assumes partial measurements of outputs and uncertainties/perturbations affecting the aircraft performance. Under such conditions, the approach is a ...

In this paper, a methodology to design algorithms for predicting the aircraft’s braking distance is presented. An efficient predicting algorithm based on the energy approach to aircraft control is developed. A new forecast correction concept is ...

We consider the methodology of intelligent analysis of telemetry data based on modern mathematical methods of information processing. We define urgent tasks of analysis and forecasting, taking into account the 20-year experience of operating the ...

This article studies the high angle of attack (AOA) maneuver control based on an improved prescribed performance method, that is, switched prescribed performance control (SPP). Different from traditional prescribed performance control, multiple ...

This work addresses the aerodynamic modeling and near-hover-flight control design for an unconventional aerial robot of the tandem ducted fan configuration, which is intended to be prototypical of a flight service vehicle. The main model elements of ...

The flight control system is a key element to achieve required performance in missiles and aircrafts. First purpose of flight control system is to ensuring the stability of the system, then, it attempts to force it to track the guidance commands. This ...

Abstract The problem of detecting and isolating sensor faults sensor fault detection and isolation-SFDI on a general aviation aircraft, in the presence of external disturbances, is considered. The proposed approach consists of an extended Kalman ...

Abstract A multi-level reconfiguration framework is proposed for fault tolerant control of over-actuated aerial vehicles, where the levels indicate how much authority is given to the reconfiguration task. On the lowest, first level the fault is ...

Abstract In this paper the hybrid supervisory control architecture developed by Famularo et al. 2011 for constrained control systems is adopted with the aim to improve safety in aircraft operations when critical events like command saturations or ...

This paper presents two families of motion primitives for enabling fast, agile flight through a dense obstacle field. The first family of primitives consists of a time-delay dependent 3D circular path between two points in space ...

Quadrotor is a type of rotor craft that consists of four rotors and two pairs of counter-rotating, fixed-pitch blades located at the four corners of the body. The flight control parameters optimization is one of the key issues for quadrotor. Estimation ...

This article studies the problem of designing adaptive fault-tolerant <italic>H</italic>_∞ tracking controllers for a class of aircraft flight systems against general actuator faults and bounded perturbations. A robust adaptive state-feedback controller ...

Adaptive control has been increasingly used in flight control of late, with notable technology transitions to autonomous flight platforms such as Joint Direct Attack Munition JDAM, X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft, NASA Generic Transport ...

According to the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) autonomous flight control problem, this paper designs the UAV control system. This paper introduces the system structure and basic functions detailed, and according to the characteristics of the UAV flight ...

In this paper, the full process simulation of a small UAV auto-pilot flight is studied. Under the Matlab/Simulink environment, we can build the UAV digital model based on the Aerospace Block set of Simulink. The autonomous navigation and guidance model ...

This paper considers robust fault-tolerant control problem of a class of uncertain switched nonlinear systems. A new state feedback fault-tolerant control method is proposed for global stabilization of the nonlinear switched systems against actuator ...

In this paper self-tuning fuzzy PID controller is developed to improved the performance for a pitch control of aircraft system. The controller is designed based on the dynamic modeling of system begins with a derivation of suitable mathematical model to ...

This paper focuses on a critical component of the situational awareness (SA), the control of autonomous vertical flight for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). With the SA strategy, we proposed a two stage flight control procedure using two autonomous ...