Following the completion of the maneuver, which resembles rocking the wings,

the airplane is in a banked attitude. Recovery from the wing shaping doublet is

considerably easier than that of the rudder doublet. Such a response indicates the wing

shaping excites the roll convergence mode.

 Clearly, the MAV requires a stability augmentation system to facilitate operation

and greatly expand its mission capability. In general, lateral maneuvers are particularly

difficult because the MAV is so responsive. The introduction of a controller would

lessen pilot workload for trajectory tracking.

 The design of a controller is the next step in the research of facilitating the ability

to operate these MAVs with the aid of active wing morphing. Future research will also

enable development of a vision-based autopilot system currently being studied [9].

 Open-loop flight tests were performed using wing morphing as an actuation mech-

anism. These flight tests demonstrate the value of morphing for consideration of a

stability augmentation system. The rudder can be used to generate lateral maneuvers

but the tight coupling of roll and yaw complicates the control needed for trajec-

tory tracking. Conversely, the morphing produces almost pure roll so an associated

controller for tracking roll commands will be the first to be implemented.