A Software Environment for Aircraft Modern Control Design and Simulation

Improving the efficiency of the control laws design process represents a great challenge for the coming years in the field of flight control. This is due to the increasing requirements from industry in terms of robustness to uncertainties. In other words, the flight control laws have to maintain the requested design performance for flight conditions that have not explicitly been used in control design. To meet these objectives, an interactive graphical software environment (ACDA), based upon Matlab/simulink, for the design and analysis of aircraft dynamics and control systems is proposed.