Download or read book Robust Nonlinear Control of Vectored Thrust Aircraft written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary program in robust control for nonlinear systems with applications to a variety of engineering problems is outlined. Major emphasis will be placed on flight control, with both experimental and analytical studies. This program builds on recent new results in control theory for stability, stabilization, robust stability, robust performance, synthesis, and model reduction in a unified framework using Linear Fractional Transformations (LFT's), Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMI's), and the structured singular value micron. Most of these new advances have been accomplished by the Caltech controls group independently or in collaboration with researchers in other institutions. These recent results offer a new and remarkably unified framework for all aspects of robust control, but what is particularly important for this program is that they also have important implications for system identification and control of nonlinear systems. This combines well with Caltech's expertise in nonlinear control theory, both in geometric methods and methods for systems with constraints and saturations. Doyle, John C. and Murray, Richard and Morris, John Unspecified Center NAG2-792...
Download or read book Robust Nonlinear Control of Vectored Thrust Aircraft written by John Comstock Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robust Multivariable Flight Control written by Richard J. Adams and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manual flight control system design for fighter aircraft is one of the most demanding problems in automatic control. Fighter aircraft dynamics generally have highly coupled uncertain and nonlinear dynamics. Multivariable control design techniques offer a solution to this problem. Robust Multivariable Flight Control provides the background, theory and examples for full envelope manual flight control system design. It gives a versatile framework for the application of advanced multivariable control theory to aircraft control problems. Two design case studies are presented for the manual flight control of lateral/directional axes of the VISTA-F-16 test vehicle and an F-18 trust vectoring system. They demonstrate the interplay between theory and the physical features of the systems.
Download or read book Robust Nonlinear Control of Piloted Tailless Fighters written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this research has been to develop effective strategies for the design and analysis of flight control systems for tailless fighter aircraft. In our quest to understand the fundamental issues in the aggressive maneuvering of high performance fighter aircraft, we have developed tools and techniques, and the appropriate supporting theoretical results, for the study and analysis of high performance maneuvering systems. We have developed a simplified flight dynamics model, the coordinated flight vehicle (CFV). Exploiting the geometric structure of the CFV, one may easily explore the space of aggressive flight maneuvers. We have developed an optimization based, trajectory morphing technique by which CFV maneuvers may be used to parametrize the achievable flight maneuvers (i.e., maneuvers that satisfy given high fidelity aircraft model dynamics). We have also developed theory and algorithms to allow these model based optimization techniques to used online, in a receding horizon fashion. As a theoretical bonus, we have obtained new results on the structure of the trajectory manifold of a nonlinear system.
Download or read book Robust Nonlinear Control of Tailless Aircraft written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this research was to develop tools leading to effective control strategies for tailless fighter aircraft. Emphasis was placed on the development of control algorithms that yield robust performance in the presence of actuator magnitude and rate limits and that account for the interaction of a pilot with the airframe and control system. The results of this research are documented in the 22 papers that are listed in this report. These papers present the development of numerous new analysis tools for nonlinear control systems with an emphasis on disturbance attenuation and sampled data control. These algorithms were applied to the manual flight control problem for open loop unstable fighter aircraft.
Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robust Nonlinear Control of Tailless Fighter Aircraft written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tools that lead to effective control strategies for tailless fighter aircraft were developed. Emphasis was placed on the development of control algorithms that yield robust performance in the presence of actuator magnitude and rate limits and that account for the interaction of a pilot with the airframe and control system. Numerous new analysis tools for nonlinear control systems were developed, with an emphasis on disturbance attenuation and sampled data control. Previously developed algorithms for control (especially anti-windup control) in the presence of actuator rate and magnitude limits were extended. The algorithms were applied to the manual flight control problem for open loop unstable fighter aircraft.
Download or read book Advanced Robust Nonlinear Control Approaches for Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle written by Moussa Labbadi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies selected advanced flight control schemes for an uncertain quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems in the presence of constant external disturbances, parametric uncertainties, measurement noise, time-varying external disturbances, and random external disturbances. Furthermore, in all the control techniques proposed in this book, it includes the simulation results with comparison to other nonlinear control schemes recently developed for the tracking control of a quadrotor UAV. The main contributions of the present book for quadrotor UAV systems are as follows: (i) the proposed control methods are based on the high-order sliding mode controller (SMC) and hybrid control algorithm with an optimization method. (ii) the finite-time control schemes are developed by using fast terminal SMC (FTSMC), nonsingular FTSMC (NFTSMC), global time-varying SMC, and adaptive laws. (iii) the fractional-order flight control schemes are developed by using the fractional-order calculus theory, super twisting algorithm, NFTSMC, and the SMC. This book covers the research history and importance of quadrotor system subject to system uncertainties, external wind disturbances, and noise measurements, as well as the research status of advanced flight control methods, adaptive flight control methods, and flight control based on fractional-order theory. The book would be interesting to most academic undergraduate, postgraduates, researchers on flight control for drones and applications of advanced controllers in engineering field. This book presents a must-survey for advanced finite-time control for quadrotor system. Some parts of this book have the potential of becoming the courses for the modelling and control of autonomous flying machines. Readers (academic researcher, undergraduate student, postgraduate student, MBA/executive, and education practitioner) interested in nonlinear control methods find this book an investigation. This book can be used as a good reference for the academic research on the control theory, drones, terminal sliding mode control, and related to this or used in Ph.D. study of control theory and their application in field engineering.
Download or read book Robust Nonlinear Aircraft Flight Control written by James M. Buffington and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project addresses the development of both control synthesis and analysis methods for affordable, highly integrated nonlinear aircraft control systems through basic research and development of control science and dynamical systems theory. The technical approach is to explore the following three primary research areas: (1) stability analysis, (2) robust nonlinear control, and (3) robust reconfigurable control. The stability analysis task assesses robustness of a baseline flight control system. The analysis results are used to develop on-board model and control allocation requirements for the other two tasks. The robust nonlinear control task includes development of compact on-board model and dynamic control allocation synthesis methods. The reconfigurable control design task includes development of an on-board model update synthesis method. The main accomplishment for the stability analysis task is using structured singular value analysis to formalize control allocation stability implications and to specify stability and control derivative accuracy requirements for on-board model synthesis. The main accomplishments for the robust nonlinear control design task are development of a dynamic control allocation formulation and development of a compact on-board model synthesis method. The main accomplishment for the robust reconfigurable control design task is the development of an on-line learning method for on-board model updates to enhance the robustness of indirect adaptive flight control systems.
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mathematical Methods for Robust and Nonlinear Control written by Matthew C. Turner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The underlying theory on which much modern robust and nonlinear control is based can be difficult to grasp. This volume is a collection of lecture notes presented by experts in advanced control engineering. The book is designed to provide a better grounding in the theory underlying several important areas of control. It is hoped the book will help the reader to apply otherwise abstruse ideas of nonlinear control in a variety of real systems.
Download or read book Nonlinear Control of Fixed Wing UAVs with Time Varying and Unstructured Uncertainties written by Michail G. Michailidis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a comprehensive and mathematically rigorous controller design for families of nonlinear systems with time-varying parameters and unstructured uncertainties. Although the presented methodology is general, the specific family of systems considered is the latest, NextGen, unconventional fixed-wing unmanned aircraft with circulation control or morphing wings, or a combination of both. The approach considers various sources of model and parameter uncertainty, while the controller design depends not on a nominal plant model, but instead on a family of admissible plants. In contrast to existing controller designs that consider multiple models and multiple controllers, the proposed approach is based on the ‘one controller fits all models’ within the unstructured uncertainty interval. The book presents a modeling-based analysis and synthesis approach with additive uncertainty weighting functions for accurate realization of the candidate systems. This differs significantly from existing designs in that it is capable of handling time-varying characteristics. This research monograph is suitable for scientists, engineers, researchers and graduate students with a background in control system theory who are interested in complex engineering nonlinear systems.
Download or read book Nonlinear Analysis and Synthesis Techniques for Aircraft Control written by Declan Bates and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus on the use of nonlinear analysis and synthesis techniques for aircraft control. It is also the first book to address in detail closed-loop control problems for aircraft "on-ground" – i.e. speed and directional control of aircraft before take-off and after touch down. The book will be of interest to engineers, researchers, and students in control engineering, and especially aircraft control.
Download or read book Vectored Propulsion Supermaneuverability and Robot Aircraft written by Benjamin Gal-Or and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to fill a professional vacuum in the new field of advance, high-angle, vectored stealth aircraft. The subject matter presented in the volume has never before been investigated and presented as a unified field of study because it covers entirely new fields and because specialized fragments of this unified field are scattered throughout literature in specific problems. The book is of interest to aeronautical and mechanical engineers, electrical and control engineers, aerospace industry, USAF, US Navy, NASA, pilots and instructors.
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decentralized Robust Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for UAS written by Gonzalo Garcia and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nonlinear and unsteady nature of aircraft aerodynamics and limited range of controls and states make the use of linear control theory inadequate. For unmanned aerial systems in particular, control technology must evolve to a point where autonomy is extended to the entire mission flight envelope. This requires advanced controllers that have sufficient robustness, track complex trajectories, and use all the vehicle's control capabilities at higher levels of accuracy. In this work, a robust nonlinear model predictive controller is designed to command and control an unmanned aerial system to track complex tight trajectories in the presence of perturbances. The flight control system developed achieves the above performance by using a nonlinear guidance algorithm that enables the vehicle to follow an arbitrary trajectory; a formulation that embeds the guidance logic and trajectory information in the aircraft model, avoiding cross coupling; an artificial neural network, designed to adaptively estimate aerodynamic and propulsive forces; a mixed sensitivity approach that enhances the robustness for an adaptive nonlinear model predictive controller.
Download or read book Robust Multivariable Flight Control written by Richard J. Adams and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-10-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manual flight control system design for fighter aircraft is one of the most demanding problems in automatic control. Fighter aircraft dynamics generally have highly coupled uncertain and nonlinear dynamics. Multivariable control design techniques offer a solution to this problem. Robust Multivariable Flight Control provides the background, theory and examples for full envelope manual flight control system design. It gives a versatile framework for the application of advanced multivariable control theory to aircraft control problems. Two design case studies are presented for the manual flight control of lateral/directional axes of the VISTA-F-16 test vehicle and an F-18 trust vectoring system. They demonstrate the interplay between theory and the physical features of the systems.
