Toward intelligent flight control

Abstract

-Flight control systems can benefit by being de- signed to emulatof natural intelligence. Intelligent control functions fall in three categories. Declarative actions involve decision making, providing models for system monitor- ing, goal planning, and systemlscenario identification. Proce- dural actions concern skilled behavior and have parallels in guidance, navigation, and adaptation. Reflexive actions are more or less spontaneous and are similar to inner-loop control and estimation. Intelligent flight control systems will contain a hierarchy of expert systems, procedural algorithms, and com- putational neural networks, each expanding on prior functions to improve mission capability, to increase the reliability and safety of flight, and to ease pilot workload.