Turbulence/Gust Alleviation using Spoiler Control

This paper presents recent work on applications of spoiler control to aircraft manoeuvring enhancement and gust alleviation. The nonlinear inverse dynamics control technique is applied to the synthesis of a decoupled model-following flight control system for an aircraft with spoilers. The effectiveness of spoiler control on turbulence/gust alleviation is examined by some simulations of landing approach in turbulence.