Review of the Flight Control Method of a Bird-like Flapping-Wing Air Vehicle

X Fang, Y Wen, Z Gao, K Gao, Q Luo, H Peng, R Du - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Bird-like Flapping-wing Air Vehicle (BFAV) is a robotic innovation that emulates the
flight patterns of birds. In comparison to fixed-wing and rotary-wing air vehicles, the BFAV …

Morphing wing design using integrated and distributed trailing edge morphing

T Mkhoyan, NR Thakrar, R De Breuker… - Smart Materials and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The presented study investigates the design and development of an autonomous morphing
wing concept developed in the scope of the SmartX project, which aims to demonstrate in …

A cascaded nonlinear fault-tolerant control for fixed-wing aircraft with wing asymmetric damage

Y Li, X Liu, R Ming, H Zhu, W Zhang - ISA transactions, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the flight dynamics of the aircraft with wing asymmetric damage and
the fault-tolerant control problem to improve the stability and flight quality of damaged …

Stability analysis for incremental adaptive dynamic programming with approximation errors

Y Li, EJ van Kampen - Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
This paper provides a convergence and stability analysis of the incremental value iteration
algorithm under the influence of various errors. Incremental control is firstly used to linearize …

Carrier-based aircraft precision landing using direct lift control based on incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion

F Luo, J Zhang, P Lyu, Z Liu, W Tang - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional direct lift control (DLC) design in carrier landing is not accepted by pilots since
it is not fully decoupled and has heavy control burden. Nevertheless, when using dynamic …

Gradient-Based Performance Optimization for Flight Control System With Real-Time Data

Z Zhao, Y Xu, G Wen - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A flight control system acts as a core subsystem in aircraft for the purpose of attitude control
and trajectory tracking. Due to the inaccurate system modeling and the internal/external …

Neural-Network-Based Incremental Backstepping Sliding Mode Control for Flying-Wing Aircraft

S Liu, W Lyu, Q Zhang, C Yang… - Journal of Guidance …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
The nonlinear trajectory tracking control problem is studied for a flying-wing aircraft. Starting
from a nonlinear dynamics model of the flying-wing aircraft, the trajectory tracking control is …

Data‐based nonlinear learning control for aircraft trajectory tracking via Gaussian process regression

C Wei, D Meng, J Zhang, K Cai - International Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, a new data‐based iterative learning control (ILC) algorithm is proposed via
Gaussian process regression (GPR) to accomplish the trajectory tracking objective of aircraft …

Practical System Identification and Incremental Control Design for a Subscale Fixed-Wing Aircraft

R Steffensen, K Ginnell, F Holzapfel - Actuators, 2024 - mdpi.com
An incremental differential proportional integral (iDPI) control law using eigenstructure
assignment gain design is tested in flight on a subscale platform to validate its suitability for …

Boosted Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion for Flexible Airplane Gust Load Alleviation

Y Beyer, M Steen, P Hecker - Journal of Guidance, Control, and …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Active gust load alleviation is an important technology for reducing loads on future
commercial airplanes so that the structure can be designed to be lighter in order to save fuel …