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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 108 - Gettysburg - October 2011
Agenda Location	8 SUBCOMMITTEE B – MISSILES AND SPACE 8.2 High-Gain Adaptive Control from the Era of X-15, and Some Lessons for Today
Title	High-Gain Adaptive Control from the Era of X-15, and Some Lessons for Today
Presenter	Mike Ruth
Affiliation	Orbital Sciences
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Abstract	Adaptive Control from the X-15 Era By Mike Ruth GN&C Tech Fellow at Orbital Sciences Corporation The period from 1955 to 1965 was a very active time for adaptive flight control development, and for aircraft flight control in general. In this paper, the research climate for that era is described, along with details of adaptive control strategies for the X-15 vehicle and the US Navy STANDARD Missile 1 (SM-1). These two vehicles achieved a high degree of flight-condition adaptivity, but in very different ways. The SM-1 and X-15 adaptation approaches are described in this presentation, along with the legacy of these two programs for current aerospace control design and analysis.