Integrated flight control design for a large flexible aircraft

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2015-07
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Theis, Julian  orcid-logo
Pfifer, Harald  
Balas, Gary  
Werner, Herbert  
Institut
Regelungstechnik E-14  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/7388
Journal
Proceedings of the American Control Conference  
Volume
2015-July
Start Page
3830
End Page
3835
Article Number
7171927
Citation
Proceedings of the American Control Conference (2015-July): 7171927 3830-3835 (2015-07)
Publisher DOI
10.1109/ACC.2015.7171927
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84940944998
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.