Requirement for control performance has become severe in order to deal with the high performance aircraft, meanwhile, it is difficult to design the flight control systems precisely because of uncertainties such as nonlinearities involved in mathematical model. While adaptive control systems have been applied to the design of flight control system as more realistic applicative approaches, most of the existing methods are still inadequate for the consideration of these uncertainties.
Recently, many researchers proposed some novel adaptive control systems with uncertainties. This paper presents a design approach of adaptive control system for the unknown system which has more general time-varying parameter uncertainties in the form of polynomial time function, then proposed method is applied to the flight control system for aircraft's longitudinal short-period motion. For demonstrating its effectiveness, some simulations are conducted using the hypothetic F-4C fighter.