Stabilization of a Pitch Axis Flight Control Experiment with Input Rate Saturation

Autor: Trygve Lauvdal, Richard M. Murray
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Modeling, Identification and Control, Vol 20, Iss 4, Pp 225-240 (1999)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0332-7353
1890-1328
DOI: 10.4173/mic.1999.4.3
Popis: Motivated by some specific problems in flight control and roll stabilization of ships, we present a technique for stabilizing a chain of integrators in the presence of rate limitations on the input. Our technique improves on several existing techniques in the literature and has a number of interesting features. The controller is evaluated experimentally on a pitch axis flight control experiment at Caltech. The experimental results show that even in the presence of rate limits that cause a linear controller to go unstable, the time-varying controller stabilizes the system with minimal loss in performance.
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