A design procedure for a command and stability augmentation system (CSAS) for the oblique wing research airplane (OWRA) is presented. Three flight conditions are considered in which the wing skew angle is 0, 55, and 6...
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A design procedure for a command and stability augmentation system (CSAS) for the oblique wing research airplane (OWRA) is presented. Three flight conditions are considered in which the wing skew angle is 0, 55, and 65 deg. The wing skew angle in the latter two cases induces severe asymmetrical dynamic behavior of the airframe. Five primary flightcontrol surfaces are used to decouple the longitudinal motions from the lateral motions. The CSAS must accept conventional three-axis stick and rudder inputs from the pilot and translate these, along with feedback signals from the airframe, into the five airframe control surface commands. The design procedure combines eigenstructure design principles with an optimization scheme, providing a closed-loop response to both pilot inputs and to initial conditions that approximate those obtained with the wing in the unskewed position.
The next generation of aircraft with a large number of effectors will require advanced methods for control allocation (CA) to compute the effectors' commands needed to follow the desired objective while respecting...
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The next generation of aircraft with a large number of effectors will require advanced methods for control allocation (CA) to compute the effectors' commands needed to follow the desired objective while respecting associated constraints. Currently, the main challenge of the CA is to achieve low enough computation time with a deterministically optimal result for a real-time application. In this paper, at first, we cast the CA as a nonlinear convex programming problem which depicts the desired objective function subject to three-axis moment demands and the limits of effectors' movement;then we develop a computationally tractable method for real-time application on the CA of the aircraft flight control system. The method can analytically and deterministically give one optimal solution for the CA and prove this optimal solution to be guaranteed within a certainly maximal computation time. Numerical testing results based on Boeing C-17 transport aircraft and Lockheed-Martin tailless fighter models demonstrate that the method is effective in terms of its computational efficiency, accuracy, and reliability.
aircraft design trends have led to increasing occurrences of the flightcontrolsystem dynamics interacting with the aeroelastic response of the aircraft. Such interations involving the X-29A aircraft are discussed.
aircraft design trends have led to increasing occurrences of the flightcontrolsystem dynamics interacting with the aeroelastic response of the aircraft. Such interations involving the X-29A aircraft are discussed.
The dynamic systems of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are susceptible to parametric uncertainties, unmodeled dynamics, and external vibrational disturbances during motion control. Although proportional-integral-deriv...
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The dynamic systems of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are susceptible to parametric uncertainties, unmodeled dynamics, and external vibrational disturbances during motion control. Although proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers are widely used in UAVs, the manual tuning process is time-consuming, and the resultant control performance is vulnerable to uncertainties in varying flight conditions, leading to suboptimal flightcontrol throughout the entire hovering flight envelope. To address this issue, the present study designs and optimizes a novel piecewise flightcontroller based on a hybrid data-driven approach combining gradient-based methods and pattern search algorithms. The optimization process is validated through comprehensive flight testing, comparing the piecewise controller with the baseline controller across a wide range of flight conditions. The study examines the objective functions and design parameters, demonstrating the robustness of the optimized piecewise controller in the presence of disturbances. The results reveal significant variations in the system model under different flight conditions, and the piecewise optimized controller demonstrates a response that is more than twice as fast as the benchmark, with acceptable overshoots and steady-state errors under the predefined trajectories. The salient features of the proposed piecewise flightcontroller and design optimization process are verified through flight testing, which is expected to provide a framework for future UAV flightcontrol designs.
Optimal sliding Gaussian control of a quadrotor aerial vehicle with a flexible structure has been demonstrated in six-degree-of-freedom flight simulation to be more robust to structural excitation than a standard prop...
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Optimal sliding Gaussian control of a quadrotor aerial vehicle with a flexible structure has been demonstrated in six-degree-of-freedom flight simulation to be more robust to structural excitation than a standard proportional-derivative control scheme. A general derivation of the optimal sliding Gaussian controller, including an optimal gain selection algorithm and observer design, is presented. Additionally, a brief development of the equations of motion for a quadrotor with a flexible structure is provided as background for the nonlinear six-degree-of-freedom flight simulation results. Robustness properties of the optimal sliding Gaussian controller are evaluated using singular value analysis of linearized models of the closed-loop quadrotor with a flexible structure. flight simulation and singular value analysis results illustrate the robustness improvements of optimal sliding Gaussian control over the standard proportional-derivative controller design.
The monitoring of controlsystem sensors and actuators for failures is presently undertaken by means of an exceptionally simple form of generalized parity relations based on a discrete-time model of the dynamics of li...
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The monitoring of controlsystem sensors and actuators for failures is presently undertaken by means of an exceptionally simple form of generalized parity relations based on a discrete-time model of the dynamics of linear, time-invariant systems. These generalized parity relations are constructed by recourse to a transfer matrix-description of the system that is additionally useful in the interpretation of their properties. Attention is given to a novel method for constructing the parity relation of minimum length that depends on the output of only a single sensor. (O.C.)
Recent controlsystem research has resulted in new methods for assessing stability and performance robustness with respect to plant and controller uncertainty. The emphasis has been on using frequency domain matrix si...
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The structured singular value analysis technique is used to generate stability and performance robustness guidelines for multivariable, flexible aircraft flight control systems. A stability augmentation and structural...
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The structured singular value analysis technique is used to generate stability and performance robustness guidelines for multivariable, flexible aircraft flight control systems. A stability augmentation and structural mode controlsystem, designed using the same classical technique as on the original production aircraft, is evaluated to produce the new guidelines. Stability margins are computed for simultaneous gain and phase uncertainty in each of the controlsystem feedback loops. Performance weighting filters are chosen specifically from military flying qualities specifications. The results of this research define exactly how robust a controlsystem of this type should be, such that any performance improvements achieved using more advanced design techniques can be compared directly.
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