Rising civilian applications that make use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) demand crucial precautions to minimize safety hazards. Future UAVs are expected incorporate fault-tolerant architectures for critical on-board systems ensure compliance with airworthiness certification. Reliability reports in-service showed flight control actuators among the highest root-causes mishaps. In this paper,...

This article describes research on the classification of flight phases using a fuzzy inference system and an artificial neural network. The aim was to identify small set input parameters that would ensure correct phase simple classifier, meaning network with low number neurons rule base. done created classifier could be implemented in control units limited computational power affordable UAVs. f...