Abstract :
Flight control systems can benefit by being designed to emulate functions of natural intelligence. Intelligent control functions fall into three categories. Declarative actions involve decision making, providing models for system monitoring, goal planning, and system/scenario 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. Intelligent 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
Keywords :
aerospace computer control; aircraft control; expert systems; hierarchical systems; intelligent control; neural nets; adaptation; computational neural networks; decision making; declarative actions; expert system hierarchy; goal planning; guidance; inner-loop control; inner-loop estimation; intelligent flight control; navigation; procedural algorithms; reflexive actions; system monitoring; system/scenario identification; Aerospace control; Computational intelligence; Computer networks; Decision making; Expert systems; Intelligent control; Intelligent networks; Intelligent systems; Monitoring; Navigation;
