Growing interest in unconventional aircraft designs coupled with miniaturization of electronics and advancements manufacturing techniques have revived the use Sub-scale Flight Testing (SFT) to study flight behaviour full-scale early stages design process by means free-flying sub-scale models. SFT is particularly useful configurations as their cannot be reliably predicted based on legacy designs...

This paper discusses a new flight test facility at MIT known as the Real-time indoor Autonomous Vehicle test ENvironment (RAVEN) which enables the exploration of aggressive aerobatic flight with relatively low risk. A key feature of this work is that the control algorithms are often the limiting factor because the flight dynamics are highly nonlinear and not well known, and they can change with...

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Flight control systems designed using linear control theory do not perform adequately over the entire operating range of aircraft. Furthermore flight control systems developed for unmanned areil vehicles are expected to meet performance specifications in the presence of nonlinearities and/or failures. Adaptive controllers are ideal candidates for flight control sytem design due to their inheren...