Computer-Aided Design of Flight Control Systems

Abstract

A comprehensive computer program for designing and evaluating multidisciplinary aircraft flight control systems is described. The FlightCAD program contains a variety of modeling, synthesis, analysis, and simulation alternatives. The program will be used to produce a control design for the 1991 AIAA Controls Design Challenge (to be completed in 1992). FlightCAD ultimately will implement a number of control design techniques; here it uses direct digital synthesis to produce a robust, proportional-integral-filter controller with scheduled linear-quadratic-Gaussian gains and command generator tracking of pilot inputs. The FlightCAD design approach is reviewed, and a status report is presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA244657

Entities

People

  • Robert F. Stengel
  • Subrata Sircar

Organizations

  • Princeton University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Estimators
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Kalman Filters
  • Mach Number
  • Measurement
  • Neural Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Swept Wings

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Naval Engineering and Maritime Security
  • Robotics and Automation.