Concluding Remarks

Summary of Achievements

The GARTEUR Action Group FM-AG(16) on Fault Tolerant Control, of which this book is the culminating result, has made a significant step forward in terms of bringing novel ‘intelligent’ self-adaptive flight control techniques, originally conceived within the academic and research community, to a higher technology readiness level. Although work still remains to be done before stringent safety and certification requirements are met, as stipulated by the industrial reviewers in the previous chapter, this book should provide a practical reference for the aerospace community on novel fault tolerant flight control techniques and their integration within the aircraft and cockpit environment. This includes studies on the application and integration issues of modern fault tolerant control techniques and a description of several innovative fault tolerant flight control methods. It is hoped that the promising results obtained in this project, and described in this book, will motivate the further maturing, testing and safe integration of the methods. Furthermore, it is hoped the book and the accompanying software will provide a reference, and benchmark for a critical review of new advanced flight control designs.