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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"Flight Control"”.
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Robust intelligent flight control for hypersonic vehicles
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1992.
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Multivariable flight control with time-scale separation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1984.
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UAV Simulation Environment for Autonomous Flight Control Algorithms
… design, analysis, and comparison of autonomous flight control laws. The simulation environment was developed in MATLAB/Simulink, with custom map generation software and FlightGear 3-D visualization. Graphical user interface of the simulation environment is user-friendly and all available options …
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Nonlinear UAV Flight Control Using Command Filtered Backstepping
… this effort is to <em>implement</em> a nonlinear flight control architecture, specifically flight path control via command filtered backstepping, for use in AME UAS's Fury® 1500 unmanned flying wing aircraft. Backstepping is a recursive, control-effort minimizing, constructive design procedure …
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Verifiable Adaptive Control Solutions for Flight Control Applications
… fundamental theoretical problems relevant to flight control for aerial vehicles and weapons in highly uncertain dynamical environment. The approach taken in this dissertation is the L1 adaptive control, which is elaborated from its design perspective for output feedback solution and is …
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Evaluating Runtime Monitoring for Reinforcement Learning-Based Flight Control
<p>Ensuring safety in adaptive flight controls systems is an ongoing challenge in aviation, especially as advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) trend upwards. Reinforcement learning is becoming more common in aerospace applications due to the ability to improve these …
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A distributed flight control system architecture for small UAVs
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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Agile flight control techniques for a fixed-wing aircraft
… mission objectives, the need for agility controlled flight becomes more of a necessity. The ability to navigate through constrained environments as well as quickly maneuver to each mission target is essential. Currently, individual vehicles are developed with a particular mission …
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Adaptive Flight Control in the Presence of Input Constraints
… and stability of these systems. Adaptive control offers a useful means for controlling systems in the presence of uncertainties. However, very often adaptive controllers require more control effort than the actuator limits allow. In this thesis the original work of others on single input …
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A learning enhanced flight control system for high performance aircraft
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1992.
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Adaptive Control of Nonaffine Systems with Applications to Flight Control
Traditional flight control design is based on linearization of the equations of motion around a set of trim points and scheduling gains of linear (optimal) controllers around each of these points to meet performance specifications. For high angle of attack maneuvers and other aggressive flight …
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Design of Synthetic Jet Actuator for Flight Control of Small UAV
… Glauert wing cross-section for Active Flow Control. Apart from lift enhancement, drag reduction, or separation control, etc; LCO suppression might be possible by modifying the boundary layer through the use of these actuators. For initial investigation, a wing section with span of 12.4 cm …
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Geometric algorithms for input constrained systems with application to flight control.
… developed to solve some problems of analysis and control design for unstable linear dynamical systems having their input constrained by maximum amplitude and rate of the control signals. Although the results obtained are of a general nature, all the problems considered are induced by flight …
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In-Flight Learning Based Flight Control of an Unmanned Aircraft System
… to push the envelope for UAVs design and control so that they can learn from nature and have more self-aware capabilities to improve safety and reliability. This dissertation addresses some challenges involved with flight controller learning based on real-time modeling of UAV. Plenty of UAV …
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Vivid: An Operating System Kernel for Radiation-Tolerant Flight Control Software
This thesis considers the challenge of defending flight software from radiation errors without a radiation-hardened processor. A new real-time operating system, Vivid, explores the use of redundant multithreading to protect critical software components from radiation errors, and offers new …
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Flight control command generation in a real-time mission planning system
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1990.
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Fixed structure methods for flight control analysis and automated gain scheduleing
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1997.
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Robust adaptive flight control systems in the presence of time delay
Adaptive control technology is a promising candidate to deliver high performance in aircraft systems in the presence of uncertainties. Currently, there is a lack of robustness guarantees against time delay with the difficulty arising from the fact that the underlying problem is nonlinear and time …
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Vision Based Guidance and Flight Control in Problems of Aerial Tracking
… design of a reliable guidance, navigation and control system for aerial vehicles based only on visual information has many unsolved problems, ranging from hardware/software development to pure control-theoretical issues, which are even more complicated when applied to the tracking of …
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