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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 106 - La Jolla - October 2010
Agenda Location	7 SUBCOMMITTEE E – FLIGHT, PROPULSION, AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEMS 7.3 Damage Tolerant Flight Controls
Title	Damage Tolerant Flight Controls
Presenter	Vlad Gavrilets
Affiliation	Rockwell Collins
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Abstract	Enhancing Aircraft Survivability through Damage-Tolerant Flight Control Vlad Gavrilets Rockwell Collins PRESENTATION ABSTRACT Rockwell Collins Damage Tolerant Control (DTC) technology is designed to mitigate common aircraft failures such as primary control surface damage, airframe damage, and complete engine failure. Under a DARPA-sponsored program, a series of flight tests were performed to showcase key aspects of the DTC technology. This paper summarizes Rockwell Collins DTC approach, and demonstrates its performance through a set of flight tests conducted between April 2007 and June 2010 on a subscale F-18 UAV. The combination of all-attitude control, Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC), Automatic Supervisory Adaptive Control (ASAC), and Emergency Mission Management System (EMMS) is shown to provide UAVs with an unprecedented robustness to otherwise catastrophic failure events.