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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 118 - Minneapolis, MN - October 2016
Agenda Location	5 6th Annual Dave Ward Memorial Lecture 5.1 Toward Verifiable Adaptive Flight Control Systems
Title	Toward Verifiable Adaptive Flight Control Systems
Presenter	Tansel Yucelen
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Abstract	Government and industry agree on the potential of adaptive control systems in providing flight safety in the presence of adverse conditions and reducing aircraft development costs. A major roadblock to their widespread adoption is the lack of a-priori, user-defined performance and robustness guarantees to preserve a given safe flight envelope in general and commercial aviation. Current practice relies heavily on excessive high-fidelity simulations and flight testing as a means of performing verification. Besides the cost, a major drawback of these post-design approaches is that they only provide limited guarantees for what was tested; the fixed set of initial conditions, pilot commands, and failure profiles. In this Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award talk, we will focus on new adaptive flight control architectures for addressing verification and validation challenges of adaptive control systems. The novel feature of these architectures is that they have the capability to preserve a given, user-defined safe flight envelope through rigorous analytical synthesis at the pre-design stage, instead of excessive high-fidelity simulations and flight testing at the post-design stage. Finally, the theoretical results to be presented will be supported by illustrative numerical examples including a hypersonic vehicle model and a generic transport model.