AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING AND AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY, vol.89, no.6, pp.893-901, 2017 (SCI-Expanded)
Purpose - The purpose of the paper is to examine a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as it undergoes five flight scenarios under straight and level, level climb, level turn, climbing turn and level steady heading sideslip conditions in a desired and controlled manner using constrained multi input multi output (MIMO) model predictive controllers (MPCs).