By introducing ACT (Active Control Technology), the resulting aircraft is able to do "new ways to fly" and is defined as CCV (Control Configured Vehicle). As such an aircraft is modelled as an MIMO system, its control law is commonly constructed by high gain P.I. plus gain scheduled method. But recently, an aircraft can fly over a wide range with its improved performance, and its derivatives can vary rapidly in flight. Therefore, except predefined points it is difficult to control such an aircraft satisfactorily. So, in this paper we proposed a design method of CCV adaptive flight control system with an unknown interactor matrix, the matrix is uniquely constructed from a controlled system and plays an important roll in producing the control law. Then, the proposed adaptive control system is applied to the small-sized and high speed aircraft with vertical canard and flap control surfaces, and by numerical simulations the effectiveness of the proposed method is examined.
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