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Volume 6, 2013
Progress in Flight Dynamics, Guidance, Navigation, Control, Fault Detection, and Avionics
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| Page(s) | 685 - 706 | |
| Section | Flexible aircraft control | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eucass/201306685 | |
| Published online | 02 December 2013 | |
An ℋ∞ full information approach for the feedforward controller design of a large blended wing body flexible aircraft
Institute of Mechanics and Mechatronics Vienna University of Technology 8 Wiedner Hauptstr., Vienna 1040, Austria
An ℋ∞ full information feedforward design approach for longitudinal motion prefilter design of a large flexible blended wing body (BWB) aircraft is presented. An existing onset is extended such that specifications concerning command tracking, limited control energy, and manoeuvre load reduction can be addressed simultaneously. Therefore, the utilized design architecture is provided and manual tuning aspects are considered. In order to increase controller tuning efficiency, an automated tuning process based on several optimization criteria is proposed. Moreover, two design methodologies for the parameter-varying design case are investigated. The obtained controller is validated on a high-order nonlinear model, indicating the high potential of the presented approach for flexible aircraft control.
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