Fault tolerant formation flight control using different adaptation techniques

Author

Tancredi, Daniele ; Yu Gu ; Haiyang Chao

Author_Institution

Simulink Quality Eng. Dept., MathWorks Natick, Natick, MA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

28-31 May 2013

Firstpage

1106

Lastpage

1113

Abstract

Different solutions to the problem of aerodynamic surface failure during formation flight are presented. Adaptive control laws are applied in order to compensate for surface blockages. Two different approaches are described in detail, Model Reference Adaptive Control and L1 Adaptive Control, in order to improve the fault-tolerance of a baseline controller designed with static gains. Simulation results are included, showing a substantial improvement of fault-tolerance performance when adaptive augmentation is used.

Keywords

adaptive control; aircraft control; autonomous aerial vehicles; control system synthesis; fault tolerance; mobile robots; position control; L1 adaptive control; UAV aircraft; adaptation technique; adaptive augmentation; adaptive control law; aerodynamic surface failure; controller design; fault tolerance performance; fault tolerant control; formation flight control; model reference adaptive control; static gain; unmanned aerial vehicle; Adaptation models; Adaptive control; Aerospace control; Aircraft; Atmospheric modeling; Mathematical model; Trajectory; Adaptive Control; Fault Tolerance; Formation Flight;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0815-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564800

Filename

6564800