High performance observers for rotorcraft control

The objective of the project is the development of a reliable methodology to implement analytical redundancy in rotorcraft platforms. Techno-Sciences, Inc.(TSi) proposes the development of sensor reconfiguration based on systematic and verifiable principles of estimator design. Supervisory control architecture needed to implement and evaluate the techniques is addressed. In Phase I all the techniques will be demonstrated using adequately constructed simulations and a rotorcraft platform as a benchmark. Phase II will focus on transition of proposed techniques to other rotorcraft platforms. The overall effort will be useful for all Department of defense unmanned and manned vehicle platforms.