Restructural controller design for a control-reconfigurable aircraft

In today's aircraft, the hardware redundancy is driven by the critical surfaces resulting in single point-failures. Reconfiguration technology removes tile single surface criticality by employing control surfaces with aerodynamic redundancy. This paper studies a control reconfiguration scheme based on Control Mixer Concept. A technique for the design of a control mixer for an aircraft with damaged surfaces/actuators using the pseudo-inverse is developed and applied. This paper discusses its applications and limitations based on linear analysis and computer simulation.