Abstract
Loss-of-control incidents in commercial and military aircraft have prompted a renewed interest in the manner in which the human pilot adapts to sudden changes or anomalies in the flight control system which augments the fundamental aircraft dynamics. A simplified control-theoretic model of the human pilot can be employed to describe adaptive pilot behavior in the so-called primary control loops and to shed light upon the limits of human control capabilities.
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Hess, R.A. (2020). Adaptive Human Pilot Models for Aircraft Flight Control. In: Baillieul, J., Samad, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5102-9_100123-1
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