CALCULATING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE AIRCRAFT EXIT ZONE TO A SET POINT
The article considers the method of calculating the boundaries of the exit zone of the aircraft to a given point based on the optimal control method. To find the optimal control, it is proposed to use a direct method based on parameterization of the desired control signals using third-order Hermitian splines. The choice of Hermitian cubic splines was motivated by the fact that these splines and their first order derivatives are smooth and continuous functions, on the one hand, and, on the other, do not require the additional solution of algebraic equations to meet the specific conditions in spline nodes which is obligatory for classic cubic splines. Spline parameters estimation is achieved through solution of the unconditional multiparametric optimization problem. The target functional includes the squares of mismatches between the desired output signals and the object model output signals. In this paper the parameter estimates are obtained using the widely known numerical optimization algorithm – the particle swarm method. The paper considers the aircraft motion in the vertical plane, for which a mathematical model of the control object is formed and the target functional is formulated. The proposed solution is advisable to apply when calculating the optimal trajectories and flight profiles of aircraft when planning their functioning for the designed purpose. The developed method allows solving a number of tasks in the process of modern aircraft design and flight tests. The application of the proposed method, the required structure of the mathematical model of the object and the features of the formation of the minimized functional are shown in a specific example.