Plenary lectures: Overview of advanced airplane control technologies

The author overviews contemporary trends in advanced airplane control technologies, including Japanese on-going airplane development projects. The concept and advantages of Active Control Technology (ACT) are given, the theoretical-background of this technology, two-degree of freedom(2DOF) control are also briefly shown. Examples of recent flight control technologies such as, Fly-By-Wire (FBW), Power-By-Wire (PBW), Thrust Vectoring Control (TVC), Integrated Flight Propulsion Control (IFPC), Forward-Swept-Wing (FSW) and Stealth, are shown with some flight test examples. Also, the role of human-operator with automatic flight control system (AFCS) is discussed.