Robust Nonlinear Control of Piloted Tailless Fighters

Abstract

Tools leading to effective control strategies for tailless fighter aircraft were developed. Emphasis was placed on the development of control algorithms that yield robust performance in the presence of actuator magnitude and rate limits. significant new tools for anti-windup synthesis were developed. The anti-windup problem is that of synthesizing modifications to an existing control system where the modifications are dormant when actuator limits are not active and the modifications maintain good performance when actuator limits are active. We applied these ideas to control a turbofan engine model, an F-l6 model, and Caltech's "ducted fan" experiment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA385195

Entities

People

  • Andrew R. Teel

Organizations

  • University of Minnesota

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Control Systems
  • Control Theory
  • Ducted Fans
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Gain
  • Linear Systems
  • Network Topology
  • Nonlinear Systems
  • Saturation
  • Simulations
  • Tailless Aircraft
  • Turbofan Engines

Readers

  • Aerodynamics.
  • Robotics and Automation.