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Flight Control

The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1955
Summary:Flight before the Wright brothers demonstrated their powered man–carrying flying machine was based on the philosophy of vehicles with high inherent stability combined with pilots whose only duty was to steer. This combination resulted in low controllability and poor manoeuvrability, with a strong response to the disturbances of rough air.
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Flight Testing a Modern Flight Control System

SAE Technical Paper Series, 1997
<div class="htmlview paragraph">With the increasing complexity of modern combat aircraft flight control systems, the flight trials phase of an aircraft development programme has become much more of an aircraft and systems model validaition exercise.
Terry Smith, Terry Smith
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Fly-by-Wire Flight Control

Computing & Control Engineering Journal, 1996
The introduction of fly-by-wire (FBW) flight control systems has been a watershed development in aircraft evolution as it has enabled technical advances to be made which were not possible before. One of the unique benefits of a FBW system is the ability to exploit aircraft configurations which provide increased aerodynamic efficiency, like more lift ...
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Visual control of honeybee flight

1997
Recent research has uncovered a number of different visual cues which bees use for controlling and stabilising flight. Bees flying through a tunnel maintain equidistance to the flanking walls by balancing the speeds of the images of the two walls. This strategy enables them to negotiate narrow passages or to fly between obstacles.
M V, Srinivasan, S W, Zhang
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Flight Controllers for Jet Transports

Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1967
Several designs for flight controllers for jet transports were developed to improve panel visibility and pilot comfort. The designs were rated by a panel of 12 pilot-evaluators. Three of the designs—Dual Side-Arm, Yoke with a Vernier Handle, and Circumferential Drive with a Vernier Handle—met with sufficiently high acceptance that their further ...
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Robust Gain-Scheduled Flight Controller for an In-Flight Simulator

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2020
In-Flight Simulators (IFSs) require flight controllers, which mimic other aircraft's dynamics in a certain operation range, which is the problem addressed in this paper. The design problem of a linear parameter-varying type gain-scheduled flight controller, which simultaneously suppresses gust effect and reproduces low-and-middle frequency commands as ...
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In-flight cabin smoke control

Toxicology, 1996
Fatal accidents originating from in-flight cabin fires comprise only about 1% of all fatal accidents in the civil jet transport fleet. Nevertheless, the impossibility of escape during flight accentuates the hazards resulting from low visibility and toxic gases.
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In Flight Validation of Adaptive Flight Control Methods

AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit, 2008
This paper presents the preliminary work done of a flight validation process for several existing and under-development metrics-driven adaptive flight control methods. This is key element in the larger NASA Intelligent Resilient Aircraft (IRAC) program, which seeks to increase overall aircraft safety through dramatic improvements in stability ...
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Toward intelligent flight control

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1993
Flight control systems can benefit by being designed to emulate functions of natural intelligence. Intelligent control functions fall into three categories. Declarative actions involve decision making, providing models for system monitoring, goal planning, and system/scenario identification.
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The Human Computer in Flight Control

IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers, 1957
It is the unique decision-making ability which makes the human operator particularly suited to accomplish flight control computation. His decisions range from the simplest repetitive determination of control actions, each intended to minimize the error, to complex problems of the sequential reprogramming of all the lower levels of decision which, in ...
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