Commercial air travel safety could see significant improvements thanks to a breakthrough in aircraft flight control technology from researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Illinois Professor Naira Hovakimyan is poised to enter into an unprecedented third round of flight tests using her L1 adaptive control system. Hovakimyan's L1 adaptive control is a novel theory she ...

Abstract: Learning-based control paradigms have seen many success stories with various robots and co-robots in recent years. However, as these robots prepare to enter the real world, operating safely ...

An adaptive flight-control system designed to increase safety in extreme conditions is entering its third round of flight tests. The L1 adaptive control system developed at the University of Illinois ...

Testing of an adaptive flight controller that could enable pilots to save a damaged or out-of-control aircraft is underway on an F-16 at Edwards AFB, California, as a critical step toward eventual ...