Chen, LejunEdwards, ChristopherAlwi, HalimSato, Masayuki2021-02-032021-02-032020-01-21Chen L, Edwards C, Alwi H, Sato M. (2020) Flight evaluation of a sliding mode online control allocation scheme for fault tolerant control. Automatica, Volume 114, April 2020, Article No. 108829.0005-1098https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2020.108829https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/16293This paper develops a sliding mode fault tolerant control scheme based on a Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) system representation of the plant. The scheme includes a control allocation component, which is capable of utilizing the available healthy actuators in the face of actuator faults/failures, in an effort to retain close to nominal fault free performance. The proposed scheme is validated using the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Multi-Purpose Aviation Laboratory (MuPAL-α" role="presentation">) research aircraft. The flight test results demonstrate good lateral-directional state tracking performance with no visible performance degradation in the presence of rudder and aileron faults.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Flight testFault tolerant controlControl allocationSliding mode controlArticle