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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 95 - Salt Lake City - March 2005
Agenda Location	5 SUBCOMMITTEE E - FLIGHT AND PROPULSION 5.1 Software Enabled Control HWIL and Flight Testing
Title	Software Enabled Control HWIL and Flight Testing
Presenter	Gary Balas
Affiliation	University of Minnesota
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Abstract	Today, the role of a control algorithm is evolving from a static design synthesized off-line to dynamic algorithms that adapt in real-time to changes in the controlled system and its environment. The paradigm for control system design and implementation is also shifting from a centralized, single processor framework to a decentralized, distributed processor implementation framework, operating on geographically separate components. Correspondingly communication and resource allocation within a distributed, decentralized environment become significant issues. Hence software and its interact with the controlled system will play a significantly larger role in the control of emerging real-time systems which was the basis for the DARPA Software Enabled Control (SEC) program. This talk describes autonomous uninhabited vehicle (UAV) guidance technologies developed and demonstrated by the University of Minnesota researchers on the DARPA SEC fixed wing flight test. The flight experiment took place in June 2004 using a Boeing UAV testbed and demonstrated important autonomy capabilities enabled by a receding horizon guidance controller and fault detection filter.