Addressing Actuation Redundancies in Incremental Controllers for Attitude Tracking of Fixed-Wing Aircraft *⁎This research is co-funded by the European Union in the scope of INCEPTION project, which has received funding from the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 723515, and by FCT, through IDMEC, under LAETA, project UID/EMS/50022/2019.

Autor: Cordeiro, Rafael A., Azinheira, José R., Moutinho, Alexandra
Zdroj: IFAC-PapersOnLine; January 2019, Vol. 52 Issue: 12 p417-422, 6p
Abstrakt: Aircraft safety heavily depends on the flight control performance, which usually requires good model knowledge. Sensor-based controllers, known as incremental controllers, have been filling this gap by substituting state-only-dependent dynamics knowledge by accelerations measurements. However, these solutions have only dealt, so far, with generalized actuation, making the control allocation a posterior step to the control design. This paper explicitly considers actuation redundancies within the design of an Incremental Backstepping controller applied to the attitude tracking of an overactuated fixed-wing aircraft. A solution using the Monroe-Penrose Pseudo-inverse is proposed to allocate the control effort. A Washout filter is introduced to retrieve the trim solution during straight-and-level flight. The closed-loop performance is evaluated with a Boeing 747 aircraft simulation including possible actuation failures.
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