MLR Institute of Technology

(Approved by AICTE and Affiliated to JNTU, Hyderabad)

Laxman Reddy Avenue, Dundigal, Qutbullapur Mandal, Hyderabad-43.R.R.Dist.

PROJECT TITLE:- An Advanced Flight Control System for General Aviation

Application

ABSTRACT

An advanced flight control system, which has been demonstrated to compensate for
unanticipated failures in military aircraft, is proposed for use in general aviation. The
method uses inverse control to decouple the flight controls and to modify the handling
qualities of the aircraft, while employing artificial neural networks in order to
compensate for any modeling error. These errors can stem from any differences
between the model and the actual aircraft. Therefore, they can include in-flight
hardware failures, rendering the system fault tolerant and reducing the necessity for
multiple levels of redundancy. The proposed system is verified in simulations for
longitudinal flight and is shown to be able to track pilot-commanded velocity and
flight path angle. Also, one example is presented for in-flight changes of the
configurations (flap deployment) where the controller is shown to adapt rapidly to
these changes without a need for compensation by the pilot. A brief discussion is also
presented in the applicability of the FAR-23 as it stands, to aircraft using decoupled
flight controls and fly-by-wire technology. A number of sections of the FAR-23 are
cited and shown clearly not be applicable to such systems. The article concludes by
showing that the implementation of these modern control techniques necessitates
devising new regulations to address the issues specific to them.

ROLL NO:- 13R21A2148

NAME:- SANJAY KUMAR