scholarly journals A RobustH∞Controller for an UAV Flight Control System

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. López ◽  
R. Dormido ◽  
S. Dormido ◽  
J. P. Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Flight Control ◽  
Noisy Environment ◽  
Flight Control System ◽  
Robust Controller ◽  
Outer Loop ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
True Airspeed ◽  
Heading Angle ◽  
Control Methodology

The objective of this paper is the implementation and validation of a robustH∞controller for an UAV to track all types of manoeuvres in the presence of noisy environment. A robust inner-outer loop strategy is implemented. To design theH∞robust controller in the inner loop,H∞control methodology is used. The two controllers that conform the outer loop are designed using theH∞Loop Shaping technique. The reference vector used in the control architecture formed by vertical velocity, true airspeed, and heading angle, suggests a nontraditional way to pilot the aircraft. The simulation results show that the proposed control scheme works well despite the presence of noise and uncertainties, so the control system satisfies the requirements.

High Altitude Airship Flight Control System Design and Simulation

2011 ◽  
Vol 128-129 ◽  
pp. 142-145
Author(s):  
Yong Hua Fan ◽  
Xin Li ◽  
Yun Feng Yu
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
High Altitude ◽  
System Design ◽  
Flight Control ◽  
Control System Design ◽  
Flight Control System ◽  
Compound Control ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
Self Tuning

The high altitude airship can not have desired performance to control the altitude rapidly and accurately when the elevator or ancillary air bursa charge or deflation is used only, because the elevator has little efficiency when the velocity is low and auxiliary air bursas charge or deflation control is very slow. It is present a method to design flight control system for a high altitude airship using auxiliary air bursas charge or deflation and elevator combination control. This combination control scheme is that the ancillary air bursa and elevator are also used to control the airship attitude to get large raise velocity and the ancillary air bursa control is used to adjust the airship altitude for suspension. In this paper, a high altitude airship model with compound control of elevator and ancillary air bursa charge and deflation is given firstly. Then the combination controller is designed by using fuzzy self-tuning control. Finally, it has been proved by simulation that the flight control system has desirable performance and the compound control scheme is feasible.

scholarly journals Sliding Mode Implementation of an Attitude Command Flight Control System for a Helicopter in Hover

10.14311/748 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. McGeoch ◽  
E. W. McGookin ◽  
S. S. Houston
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Flight Control ◽  
Sliding Mode ◽  
Flight Control System ◽  
Design Standards ◽  
Handling Qualities ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Order Representation ◽  
Control Implementation

This paper presents an investigation into the design of a flight control system, using a decoupled non-linear sliding mode control structure, designed using a linearised, 9th order representation of the dynamics of a PUMA helicopter in hover. The controllers are then tested upon a higher order, non-linear helicopter model, called RASCAL. This design approach is used for attitude command flight control implementation and the control performance is assessed in the terms of handling qualities through the Aeronautical Design Standards for Rotorcraft (ADS-33). In this context a linearised approximation of the helicopter system is used to design an SMC control scheme. These controllers have been found to yield a system that satisfies the Level 1 handling qualities set out by ADS-33. 

LQG-Based Robustifying Flight Control System

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Griffin ◽  
A. G. Kelkar
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Flight Control ◽  
Controller Design ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Flight Control System ◽  
Robust Controller ◽  
Fighter Aircraft ◽  
Stability Robustness ◽  
Uncertainty Model ◽  
The Stability

This paper presents a robust controller design for an automatic flight control system (AFCS) for a fighter aircraft model with eight inputs and seven outputs. The controller is designed based on McFarlane-Glover robustifying technique using a simple baseline LQG design. Controllers designed purely based on traditional LQG techniques are known to have no guaranteed robustness margins. The McFarlane-Glover technique can be used to enhance the stability robustness of the baseline LQG design using a two-step design process. In the first step, an LQG controller is designed which is optimized only for performance without any consideration to robustness. In the second step, the performance optimized LQG design is rendered robust using McFarlane-Glover procedure. The robustifying procedure uses a coprime factor uncertainty model and H∞ optimization. An important advantage of this procedure is that no problem dependent uncertainty modelling or weight selection is required in the second step of the process. The robustifying procedure also yields the quantitative estimate of the robustness.

A Self-Repairing Control for the Uncertain System of a Helicopter Using Adaptive Sliding Mode Technology

2012 ◽  
Vol 468-471 ◽  
pp. 529-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fu Yang Chen ◽  
Wen Li Luan ◽  
Rui Hou
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Flight Control ◽  
Sliding Mode ◽  
Nonlinear Function ◽  
Uncertain System ◽  
Flight Control System ◽  
Adaptive Technology ◽  
Helicopter Flight ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
Adaptive Control Scheme

In this paper, an adaptive control scheme is proposed for the uncertain flight control system of the helicopter with fault in vertical flight. The controller is designed using sliding mode theory and adaptive technology. In the controller, the nonlinear function is brought in, which can enlarge the small errors, and saturate the large errors. And it can make sure the good transient performances and stability of the helicopter flight control system. Finally, the simulation results of the nonlinear helicopter flight system illustrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed scheme in the paper.

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