Very Flexible Aircraft Model

Matlab model of a simplified Very Flexible Aircraft (VFA) model by Travis E. Gibson, Anuradha Annaswamy, and Eugene Lavretsky.

• "Closed-loop Reference Model adaptive control : with application to very flexible aircraft," http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87974
• "Modeling for Control of Very Flexible Aircraft," https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2011-6202

File List

Name	Description
atmosphere4.m	Standard atmospheric model for the 1976 NASA Standard Atmosphere
find_steady_state.m	Finds steady-state parameters for the VFA model using fmincon
odefunc.m	Helper function to call vfa_deriv.m
vfa_deriv.m	Nonlinear VFA model

References

• Gibson, T. E. (2014). Closed-loop Reference Model adaptive control : with application to very flexible aircraft. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87974
• Gibson, T., Annaswamy, A., & Lavretsky, E. (2011). Modeling for Control of Very Flexible Aircraft. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference. Portland, Oregon. doi:10.2514/6.2011-6202