This paper describes experiments in applying inductive learning to the task of acquiring a complex motor skill by observing human subjects. A flight simulation program has been modified to log the actions of a human subject as he or she flies an aircraft. The log file is used to create the input to an induction program. The output from the induction program is tested by running the simulator in...

This paper presents the development and preliminary results of a rapidly reconfigurable autopilot for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. The autopilot presented differs from current commercial and open source autopilots mainly as it has been designed to: (i) be easily reprogrammable via Simulink (models are directly transferred to the autopilot through the Real-Time Workshop’s code-generation capa...

In this paper a course-keeping autopilot for a containership designed with fuzzy logic theory is presented. The autopilot control strategy is deduced heuristically by exploiting expert knowledge and is implemented by means of fuzzy logic. In order to facilitate analytical analysis of the closed loop system non-linear control theory is used to guide the choice of control structure. An interpreta...

Parametric uncertainty is the one of the challenging task in many dynamical systems. In this paper QFT based PID Controller is developed to improve the performance for a pitch control of uncertain aircraft system. The controller is designed based on the dynamic modeling of system begins with a derivation of suitable mathematical model to describe the longitudinal motion of an aircraft. Genetic ...

Robust autopilot design for bank-to-turn (BTT) missiles under disturbances and uncertainties is investigated in this paper using the disturbance observer concept. It is well known that the BTT missile dynamics undergo a substantial changes during its flight. In this disturbance observer based control setting, the influences caused by parameter variations are merged into disturbance terms and re...

The need for autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is very interesting nowadays. Autonomous UAVs provide the possibility of performing tasks and missions that are currently hazardous or can cost humans or money, enable autonomous search, persistent combat intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), and many other applications. This paper presents an overview of autopilot design wi...

In this paper, the authors tried to design the altitude hold mode autopilot for unmanned aerial vehicles. This case presents an interesting challenge attributable to the nonminimum phase characteristic, nonlinearities, and uncertainties of the altitude to elevator relationship. A fuzzy logic autopilot in a single-loop scheme is proposed for the design of this autopilot. The multiobjective genet...

The missile autopilot was designed using linear parameter-varying (LPV) control techniques. The controller provides exponential stability guarantee and performance bound in terms of induced L2 norm for the missile plant. The systematic gain-scheduling approach is motivated by the recent development in LPV control theory and provides a well founded and systematic procedure for high performance m...

A novel robust adaptive fuzzy control algorithm is presented for autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) autopilot. This paper studies an approach for fuzzy rule base optimization. The optimization solution especially solves the non-compatible problem in the generation process of fuzzy control rules. For the design study, the optimization model has been carried out in the simulink environment. It is s...