RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR FAULT TOLERANT FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM – PART 1 . INTELLIGENT FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM

This paper presents a research project on a fault tolerant flight control system. The objective of this project is the development of an intelligent control system that can adaptively control and guide an aircraft during emergency situations. The background of the project and mathematical formulations are reported as Part 1 of the paper. Flight experiments will be presented in Part 2. A research group comprising members from academia, industry and research organization has been formed by the Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies (SJAC) for carrying out the project, Flight demonstrations of the developed system have been successfully performed from fiscal year 2005 to 2007.