Passivity-based control for flight control systems

Author

Akmeliwati, R. ; Mareels, Iven

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

20

Abstract

Presents a passivity-based control (PBC) for flight control systems considering both stabilization and tracking. The aircraft dynamics are divided into fast (short period) and slow (phugoid) motions. Control laws for each motion are designed using the PBC technique. Using the Euler-Lagrange equations of motion, the dynamics are obtained from the aircraft energy equations. Our proposed method is an extension of the total energy control systems which was introduced by Lambregts (1983). Our method is illustrated on a longitudinal control problem of a twin-engined aircraft. The flight trajectory and simulation results are provided

Keywords

aircraft control; control system synthesis; dynamics; motion control; position control; stability; Euler-Lagrange equations of motion; aircraft dynamics; aircraft energy equations; flight control systems; flight trajectory; longitudinal control problem; passivity-based control; phugoid motion; short period motion; stabilization; total energy control systems; tracking; twin-engined aircraft; Aerodynamics; Aerospace control; Aerospace electronics; Aerospace simulation; Aircraft; Control systems; Equations; Lagrangian functions; Multilevel systems; Open loop systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Decision and Control, 1999. IDC 99. Proceedings. 1999

Conference_Location

Adelaide, SA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5256-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IDC.1999.754119

Filename

754119