Design of intelligent flight control law following the optical payload

This paper develops methodologies for intelligent flight control of aircraft following optical payload manipulated by an operator. An intelligent strategy combining fuzzy logic control and pursuit guidance is proposed such that the target within the camera field-of-view can be observed by an automatic flight maneuver. Simulation results demonstrate that the aircraft automatically flies following the optical payload to keep targets within the field-of-view of the camera.

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