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Fault tolerant flight control (FTFC) has been investigated to increase aviation safety. FTFC adaptively changes control devices, control algorithms, or control parameters in order to regulate the change of dynamic characteristics of aircraft when malfunction of control system or airframe structure failure occurs during the flight. It is difficult to carry out the flight demonstration of FTFC for an aircraft with pilot operation since the airworthiness should be satisfied even in the failure cases. The use of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) is suitable for this purpose. The authors’ team has been demonstrating the FTFC based on neural networks (NNs) using a small UAVs.
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It is noted that this project was funded by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and was organized by The Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies (SJAC). It is noted the model construction and flight operations were conducted by the student team from three laboratories at the University of Tokyo, e.g., structure, aerodynamic and flight dynamic laboratories. Finally, we would like to my gratitude to Professor K. Rinoie, Professor T. Aoki, Associate Professor T. Yokozeki, Associate Professor T. Tsuchiya and students for their enthusiastic support to this project.
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Suzuki, S., Yoshimatsu, Y., Miyaji, K. (2013). Flight Demonstrations of Fault Tolerant Flight Control Using Small UAVs. In: Nonami, K., Kartidjo, M., Yoon, KJ., Budiyono, A. (eds) Autonomous Control Systems and Vehicles. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 65. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54276-6_1
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