Integrated reconfigurable flight control method for aircraft with multiple control effectors

An integrated reconfigurable flight control design method, combining passive reconfigurable flight control with active reconfigurable flight control, was presented for enhancing flight safety. The robust flight control law was designed by the trajectory linearization control method. In addition, the concept of management of control effectors was proposed to regulate the remaining control effectors. The control reconfiguration under control effector failures was achieved by optimal basis-sequence control allocation method which recombined the available control effectors as bases of multidimensional space and sequenced them according to the control objective. The simulation results indicate that the integrated reconfigurable flight control system can deal with some typical failures of control effectors. And the control commands can be followed with relative good handling quality under control effectors failures.