Integrated flight control design for a large flexible aircraft

Julian Theis; Harald Pfifer; Gary Balas; Herbert Werner

doi:10.1109/ACC.2015.7171927

Integrated flight control design for a large flexible aircraft

Julian Theis, Harald Pfifer, Gary Balas, Herbert Werner

Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

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Abstract

A systematic design procedure suited to integrate rigid body and aeroelastic control objectives within the mixed sensitivity framework is proposed for a two-degrees-of-freedom control configuration. It is based on a modal representation and combines stability augmentation, structural mode control and maneuver demand in a single linear parameter-varying (LPV) controller. To demonstrate applicability, an integrated flight control system is designed for the nonlinear model of a large flexible aircraft. The integrated controller is shown to greatly reduce structural vibrations while maintaining handling qualities and robustness margins of a conventional controller.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	ACC 2015 - 2015 American Control Conference
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	3830-3835
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479986842
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2015.7171927
State	Published - Jul 28 2015
Event	2015 American Control Conference, ACC 2015 - Chicago, United States Duration: Jul 1 2015 → Jul 3 2015

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Name	Proceedings of the American Control Conference
Volume	2015-July
ISSN (Print)	0743-1619

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Conference	2015 American Control Conference, ACC 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago
Period	7/1/15 → 7/3/15

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Integrated flight control design for a large flexible aircraft. / Theis, Julian; Pfifer, Harald; Balas, Gary et al.
ACC 2015 - 2015 American Control Conference. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. p. 3830-3835 7171927 (Proceedings of the American Control Conference; Vol. 2015-July).

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Theis, J, Pfifer, H, Balas, G & Werner, H 2015, Integrated flight control design for a large flexible aircraft. in ACC 2015 - 2015 American Control Conference., 7171927, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, vol. 2015-July, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 3830-3835, 2015 American Control Conference, ACC 2015, Chicago, United States, 7/1/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2015.7171927

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