Adaptive fault compensation for aircraft flight systems with actuator faults

In this paper, an adaptive fault compensation scheme is investigated for aircraft flight systems in the presence of non-measurable rate on the actuator second-order dynamics. The proposed fault compensation scheme is a combination between multiple model and adaptive reconfiguration control. By means of the designed method, the system output can track that of reference model asymptotically, and desired performance of the developed scheme is demonstrated by simulation studies on the lateral dynamic model of a Boeing 747 airplane.