摘要：AbstractCurrent fighter aircraft are demanded to feature multirole capability with large number of different external stores to be integrated on the aircraft. These stores represent air to air, air to surface weapons etc., which have wide range of aerodynamic characteristics as well as different mass properties (CG, mass, inertia). This conflicts with the requirement of adequate stability, optimum handling qualities, superior agility and robustness characteristics over the entire flight envelope. Especially with an unstable aircraft it is impossible to fulfill these requirements for all stores with just one set of control laws. Therefore, automatic reconfiguration in control laws based on similar flight dynamic characteristics is carried out. Stores grouping concept is often used to reconfigure the flight control laws with store information in order to normalize/optimize the flight dynamics characteristics and corresponding support towards flight clearance. The flight clearance is a tedious procedure as a host of criteria need to be evaluated at a large number of nominal flight conditions for different airframe configurations, multiples thereof with tolerances and failures. This paper describes how various stores configurations can be grouped together in order to accelerate the clearance process.
