Control of Longitudinal Flight Dynamics of a Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle Using Time-Averaged Model and Differential Flatness Based Controller

Author

Khan, Zaeem A. ; Agrawal, K.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Delaware, Newark

fYear

2007

fDate

9-13 July 2007

Firstpage

5284

Lastpage

5289

Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of flight control of high frequency time-varying dynamics of biologically motivated flapping-wing micro air vehicle (FWMAV). A control scheme based on time-averaging theory is presented for the control of longitudinal dynamics of FWMAV. The time averaging results in a simplified model which approximates the high frequency time varying dynamics of the original system. A differential flatness based non-linear controller is designed for the time-averaged system and successfully applied to the time-varying system for trajectory tracking.

Keywords

aerospace control; aircraft control; control system synthesis; mechanical variables control; nonlinear control systems; position control; time-varying systems; vehicle dynamics; differential flatness based nonlinear controller design; flapping-wing micro air vehicle; longitudinal flight dynamic control; time-averaging theory; time-varying dynamics; trajectory tracking; Aerospace control; Biological system modeling; Control systems; Frequency; Nonlinear control systems; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Time varying systems; Trajectory; Vehicle dynamics; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, 2007. ACC '07

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

0743-1619

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0988-8

Electronic_ISBN

0743-1619

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.2007.4283052

Filename

4283052