Flight Control: Challenges and Opportunities

39 6 Vol. 39, No. 6 2013 6 ACTA AUTOMATICA SINICA June, 2013 1 2 1 1,., : ;, ; ; ;. DOI,,,,,,,., 2013, 39(6): 703 710 10.3724/SP.J.1004.2013.00703 Flight Control: Challenges and Opportunities CHEN Zong-Ji 1 ZHANG Ru-Lin 2 ZHANG Ping 1 ZHOU Rui 1 Abstract The development of flight control is facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. According to the new demands and new technological features of future flight vehicles, the opportunities and challenges of flight control are analyzed from the following five aspects: 1) new characteristics of flight vehicles; 2) information-oriented environment; 3) autonomous of unmanned systems; 4) high-reliable reconfigurable fault-tolerant systems; 5) assessment and validation of flight control systems. To exploit the opportunities and meet the challenges, the following five research aspects should be strengthened: 1) new concepts, theories and methods with respect to new characteristics of flight vehicles; 2) information-oriented integration of control, computing and communication, and integration of control, decision-making and management; 3) high level autonomous unmanned systems; 4) high-reliable and reconfigurable fault-tolerant flight control system; 5) high-efficient, high-reliable assessment and validation on flight control systems. Key words ability Flight control, new characteristics of flight vehicles, information-oriented, fault-tolerant system, autonomous Citation Chen Zong-Ji, Zhang Ru-Lin, Zhang Ping, Zhou Rui. Flight control: challenges and opportunities. Acta Automatica Sinica, 2013, 39(6): 703 710.,, 2012-07-19 2013-05-20 Manuscript received July 19, 2012; accepted May 20, 2013 (60975073, 61175109), Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (60975073, 61175109), the Research Foundation of Key Laboratory of National Defense Science and Technology on Flight Control Laboratory Recommended by Academician HUANG Lin 1. 100191 2. 710065 1. School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 100191 2. AVIC Xi an Flight Automatic Control Research Institute, Xi an 710065, 1 1903,, [1]. 60,, / 60,,,,

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