Fault Tolerant Flight Control for the Traction Phase of Pumping Airborne Wind Energy Systems

作     者：Mohammed, Tareg Oland, Espen Fagiano, Lorenzo 

作者机构：Kitemill AS N-5704 Voss Norway Politecn Milan Dipartimento Elettron Informaz & Bioingn I-20133 Milan MI Italy UiT The Arctic Univ Norway N-8514 Narvik Norway 

出 版 物：《INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTROL AUTOMATION AND SYSTEMS》 (国际控制与自动化系统杂志)

年 卷 期：2024年第22卷第8期

页      面：2428-2443页

核心收录：

学科分类：12[管理学] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 08[工学] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 

基　　金：Fondazione Cariplo [2 - PE00000021 - D43C22003090001] Italian Ministry of University and Research [P2022927H7] 

主　　题：Airborne wind energy fault-tolerant control flight control high-altitude wind nonlinear control 

摘      要：A fault-tolerant control approach is proposed, for a pumping airborne wind energy system (AWES) comprising a tethered fixed-wing aircraft with integrated propellers for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL). First, the flight control design for the traction phase of the system, when the tethered aircraft has to fly in loops using the rudder, is presented. Then, the presence of the propellers, that are normally not used in the traction phase, is exploited to obtain a fault tolerant controller in case of rudder malfunctioning. The approach detects a possible discrete control surface fault and compensates for the loss in actuation by using the VTOL system. A sophisticated model of the system is used to analyse the performance of the proposed technique. The main finding is that the approach is able to handle abrupt rudder faults with high tolerance.