L 1 adaptive controller design for hypersonic formation flight

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The design of an L1 adaptive controller for hypersonic formation flight is presented. The traditional leader/wingman for-mation control problem is considered, with focused attention on dealing with the input disturbance and parametric variations, both of which are intrinsic properties of the system that result in undesired control performance. A proportional-derivative control scheme based on nonlinear dynamic inversion is implemented as the baseline controller, and an L1 adaptive con-troller is augmented to the baseline controller to attenuate the effects of input disturbance and parametric variations. Sim-ulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

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