This book provides a basic understanding of adaptive control and its
applications in Flight control. It discusses the designing of an
adaptive feedback control system and analyzes this for flight control of
linear and nonlinear aircraft models using synthetic jet actuators. It
also discusses control methodologies and the application of control
techniques which will help practicing flight control and active flow
control researchers. It also covers modelling and control designs which
will also benefit researchers from the background of fluid mechanics and
health management of actuation systems.
The unique feature of this book is characterization of synthetic jet
actuator nonlinearities over a wide range of angles of attack, an
adaptive compensation scheme for such nonlinearities, and a systematic
framework for feedback control of aircraft dynamics with synthetic jet
actuators.