Stabilization with Saturated Actuators, a Worked Example: F-8 Longitudinal Flight Control

The authors and coworkers recently proved general theorems on the global stabilization of linear systems subject to control saturation. This paper develops in detail an explicit design for the linearized equations of longitudinal flight control for an F-8 aircraft, and tests the obtained controller on the original nonlinear model. This paper represents the first detailed derivation of a controller using the techniques in question, and the results are very encouraging.