The INCEPTION team organized a special session during the 21^st IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace (ACA’19) (link) that was focused on Nonlinear Flight Control, Envelope Prediction and Protection Techniques for Flight Safety. It was chaired by Hyo-Sang Shin, Center for Autonomous and Cyberphysical Systems, Cranfield University and co-chaired by Alexandra Moutinho, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, who are the key personnel of INCEPTION.

During the session, several papers were presented, most of which from INCEPTION researchers:

• Closed-loop Analysis with Incremental Backstepping Controller considering Measurement Bias - B.-J. Jeon, M.-G. Seo , H.-S. Shin and A. Tsourdos,
• Two-Layer On-line Parameter Estimation for Adaptive Incremental Backstepping Flight Control for a Transport Aircraft in Uncertain Conditions - D. Ignatyev, H.-S. Shin and A. Tsourdos,
• Addressing Actuation Redundancies in Incremental Controllers for Attitude Tracking of Fixed-Wing Aircraft - R. Cordeiro, J. R. Azinheira and A. Moutinho,
• Towards Resilient UAV: Escape Time in GPS Denied Environment with Sensor Drift (I) - H.J. Yoon, W. Wan, H. Kim, N. Hovakimyan, L. Sha, P. G. Voulgaris,
• Integration of Phase Plane Flight Envelope Protections in Cascaded Incremental Flight Control - A. Gabrys, R. Steffensen, R. Cordeiro, J. R. Azinheira, A. Moutinho, F. Holzapfel,

Presentations caught the great deal of attention from ACA Conference participants and after the exciting Q&A session and discussion of results achieved so far in the project, researchers connected and left to prepare for the next day of the conference.