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Robust MRAC augmentation of flight control laws for center of gravity adaptation
When an aircraft is flying and burning fuel the center of gravity (c.g.) of
the aircraft shifts slowly. The c.g. can also be shifted abruptly when e.g. a
fighter aircraft releases a weapon. The shift in c.g. is difficult to measure
or estimate so the flight control systems need to be robustly designed to cope
with this variation. However for fighter aircrafts with high manoeuvrability
there is room for improvements. In this project we investigate if the use of
adaptive control law augmentation can be used to better cope with the change in
c.g. We augment a baseline controller with a robust Model Reference Adaptive
Control (MRAC) design and analyse its benefits and possible issues.Comment: Extended abstract of this paper has been submitted to Aerospace
technology conference 2016 (www.ft2016.se