Research: Active-Adaptive Control of Autonomous Systems in air: |
Application to Safety Critical Flight Systems
One of the main obstacles to the implementation of adaptive controllers for safety critical applications is the absence of analytically justified Verification and Validation (V&V) techniques for such systems. A new project is underway to determine the beginnings of a theoretically motivated V&V technique for adaptive controllers in the context of controlling uncertain flight vehicle dynamics. A set of tools is currently being developed for characterizing the transient properties of direct adaptive systems is developed using a combination of Lyapunov theory, asymptotic analysis, and linear systems theory. Current research includes analysis, design, and application of adaptive V&V tools to full-scale nonlinear models of aircraft systems in the presence of actuator anomalies.
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