Evaluation of the properties of a multiple-model reconfigurable flight controller on a 6 DOF simulation

In this paper we describe the implementation of the multiple model-based FBI-ARC algorithms from [6, 1] in the nonlinear 6 DOF simulation of a Tailless Advanced Fighter Aircraft (TAFA). Due to the nonlinear nature of the simulation, the implementation and tuning of the algorithms is substantially more complicated than of their counterparts in linear simulations. However, the well tuned FDIARC achieved excellent performance despite severe flight-critical variations in the aircraft dynamics.