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Carefree Maneuvering is a new term describing the ability to allow
pilots to fly the aircraft without worrying about its envelope limits.
Various pilot cues or controller techniques can be designed into the system
to reduce pilot workload.
Recent Research Topics
- Carefree Maneuvering for Piloted Vehicles Using Active
Side-stick Controllers
- Carefree
maneuvering using active side stick inceptors is a popular form to cue
pilots on approaching limits. A key problem is to estimate the available
control travel at the time the controls are applied. This requires
estimation. A major research topic is to develop techniques to estimate
so-called control margins on active inceptors.
- Carefree Maneuvering for UAVs
- Autonomous and agile UAVs need to monitor their flight envelope limits
similar to a pilot. Control systems need to be developed to account for this
fact. In our approach a separate envelope protection module can be
integrated to any exciting UAV controller to adjust controller commands so
that the flight envelope is not violated. Moreover the system will allow the
UAV to fly at the limit boundary using the UAVs full flight potential
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