Control of nearly Singular Decoupling Systems and nonlinear Aircraft Maneuver

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1988

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volume

24

First page number:

775

Last page number:

784

Abstract

The author treats the question of control of a class of nonlinear systems using state variable feedback whose input/output map is nearly singular. Although the existing decoupling theory is applicable to such systems, this requires a large amount of control, which may not be permissible. A decoupling approach using state variable feedback in an approximate sense, but requiring a small control magnitude is considered. A decoupling scheme is presented that gives rise to a singularly perturbed system describing the fast dynamics of the control vector. The quasi-steady-state solution of the system gives a control law that decouples the system in an approximate way. The controller includes a servo compensator and a reference trajectory generator. Based on this result, a control law for approximate decoupling of roll angle, angle of attack, and sideslip in rapid, nonlinear airplane maneuvers is derived. Simulated responses of the closed-loop system show that large, simultaneous lateral and longitudinal maneuvers can be accurately performed in spite of uncertainty in stability derivatives.

Keywords

Aerospace control; Aircraft; Airplanes; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Electric variables control; Force control; Nonlinear control systems; Nonlinear systems; State feedback

Disciplines

Aeronautical Vehicles | Aerospace Engineering | Astrodynamics | Controls and Control Theory | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Electrical and Electronics | Electronic Devices and Semiconductor Manufacturing | Multi-Vehicle Systems and Air Traffic Control | Navigation, Guidance, Control and Dynamics | Power and Energy | Propulsion and Power | Signal Processing | Structures and Materials | Systems Engineering and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization

Language

English

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