Interaction between a fault-tolerant flight control system using simple adaptive control and pilot's pitch control

This paper deals with a fault-tolerant flight control system where the aircraft is manually controlled by pilots. Our previous research demonstrated that Simple Adaptive Control (SAC) with a PID compensator could automatically control an aircraft even after the dynamic characteristics change due to aircraft damage only under predetermined desired value. Now we focus on the interaction between the pilot's input and the adaptive controller. In this paper, we installed the adaptive controller in the flight simulator in order to check the basic performance of the developed system and the interaction in landing phases between the pilot's control input and the adaptive controller.