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The present chapter1 is devoted to the flatness-based control design for one of the major control applications of the 20th century, namely ight control.

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Lévine, J. (2009). Automatic Flight Control Systems. In: Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Systems. Mathematical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00839-9_14

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