Toward intelligent flight control

R.F. Stengel
1993 IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics  
Flight control systems can benefit by being designed to emulate functions of natural intelligence. Intelligent control functions fall in three categories. Declarative actions involve decision making, providing models for system monitoring, goal planning, and systemlscenario identification. Procedural actions concern skilled behavior and have parallels in guidance, navigation, and adaptation. Reflexive actions are more or less spontaneous and are similar to inner-loop control and estimation.
more » ... lligent flight control systems will contain a hierarchy of expert systems, procedural algorithms, and computational neural networks, each expanding on prior functions to improve mission capability, to increase the reliability and safety of flight, and to ease pilot workload. 'Expert systems can have tree or graph structures. In the former, there is a single root node, and all final ( l e a f ) nodes are connected to their own single branch. In the latter, one or more branches lead to individual nodes. Reasoning is consistent if an individual node is not assigned differing values by different branches [45] .
doi:10.1109/21.257764 fatcat:stxvwzxibzf6xnusfpm66egl4i