“…The performed literature survey indicates that designs of autopilots primarily involve application of established control theories such as classical (Devaud et al, 2000), robust (Buschek, 2003;Biannica and Apkariana, 1999;McLain and Beard, 1999;Bennani et al, 1998;Rodriguez and Cloutier, 1994;Lin and Lee, 1984), adaptive (Kim et al, 2004;Han and Balakrishnan, 2002;Lin and Wang, 1998), gain-scheduling Leith et al, 2001;Shamma and Cloutier, 1993), sliding mode (Huang and Way, 2001;Shkolnikov et al, 2000), quantitative feedback theory (Benshabat and Chait, 1993), predictive control (Chen et al, 2003;Lu, 1994), genetic approach (Lin and Lai, 2001;Crawford et al, 1999) or a combination of a set of these techniques (Donha et al, 1998;Schumacher and Khargonekar, 1998;Reichert, 1992). Of course, as performance requirements for aerospace vehicles increase, more complicated control algorithms may be required.…”