Intelligent Control of Unmanned Air Vehicles: Program Summary and Representative Results

Abstract

In early 2001, AFRL and NAVAIR issued a PRDA requesting proposals to develop an intelligent controller (IC) for unmanned combat air vehicles. Two key requirements of the IC were (1) a learning approach that could go beyond current adaptive controllers and "remember" what it had learned across flight conditions and (2) a reconfigurable path planner that accounted for changes in the inner-loop behavior and generated near-optimal trajectories in real time. This paper presents a summary of the resulting IC program and some initial technical results.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA417904

Entities

People

  • D. G. Ward
  • J. Deluca
  • M. Mears
  • Maitreyee Sharma Priyadarshini
  • N. D. Richards

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aeronautics
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Algorithms
  • All Wing Aircraft
  • Automatic Pilots
  • Control Surfaces
  • Control Systems
  • Control Systems Engineering
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Reliability
  • Tailless Aircraft
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Materials Science (Mechanical Engineering).
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control