DARPA has awarded Aurora Flight Sciences a phase 2 contract for its CRANE (Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors) program, following wind tunnel testing of a small-scale X-plane that ...

Simplifying flight—to make it as easy as getting into a car with automatic transmission—has long eluded the aerospace engineers creating new aircraft. While we’ve relied on flight controls such as ...

Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) aircraft present significant control challenges due to their nonlinear, strongly coupled dynamics and sensitivity to disturbances, particularly during hover–forward ...

The first unmanned aircraft control station has been fitted in a US Navy (USN) aircraft carrier – a major milestone in the service’s journey to integrate uncrewed jets into the carrier air wing. The ...

eVTOL (Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing) craft are some of the more exciting air vehicles being developed lately. They aim to combine the maneuverability and landing benefits of helicopters with ...

In this paper, a novel control strategy for the attitude stabilization of a nonlinear aircraft model is proposed, integrating active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) with the smart super-twisting ...