Optical technology for flight control systems.

Technology validation of optical fiber cables for space flight environments

Periodically, commercially available (commercial off the shelf, COTS) optical fiber cable assemblies are characterized for space flight usage under the NASA Electronic Parts and Packaging Program (NEPP). The purpose of this is to provide a family of optical fiber cable options to a variety of different harsh environments typical to space flight missions. The optical fiber cables under test are ...

Flight Control Actuation Systems

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Adaptive Flight Control System: Flight Evaluation and Technology Transition

Certification of adaptive control technologies for both manned and unmanned aircraft represent a major challenge for current Verification and Validation techniques. A (missing) key step towards flight certification of adaptive flight control systems is the definition and development of analysis tools and methods to support Verification and Validation for nonlinear systems, similar to the proced...

Constrained Predictive Strategies for Flight Control Systems

The complexity of nowadays flight control systems arises from the engineering prescription to properly merge and integrate actuators, sensors and computing units within complex data network structures. The use of many different sensors and actuators, the presence of nonlinear phenomena, dynamic effects due to switching operating conditions as well as physical constraints due to input/state satu...

Advances in Flight Control Systems