The goal of flight control design is to find a satisfactory controller to meet the design requirements or flight performance specifications. Moreover, this empirical design approach does not ensure that the best design has been presented, nor does it assure that performance is in fact feasible after many failed tuning efforts. Therefore, the fundamental question of feasibility and optimization may also be answered simultaneously. Our research will investigate performance oriented design strategies in flight control applications, addressing the issues noted above. Emphasis will be placed upon performance evaluation, multiple specification control, and automated design and implementation procedure.
Current focus is on system modeling and performance comparison.