Due to a need for improved reliability and performance in aerospace systems, there is increased interest in the use of adaptive control or other nonlinear, time-varying control designs in aerospace vehicles. While such techniques are built on Lyapunov stability theory, they lack an accompanying set of metrics for the assessment of stability margins such as the classical gain and phase margins used in linear time-invariant systems. Such metrics must both be physically meaningful and permit the user to draw conclusions in a straightforward fashion. We present in this paper a roadmap to the development of metrics appropriate to nonlinear, time-varying systems. We also present two case studies in which frozen-time gain and phase margins incorrectly predict stability or instability. We then present a multi-resolution analysis approach that permits on-line real-time stability assessment of nonlinear systems.
Stability Metrics for Simulation and Flight-Software Assessment and Monitoring of Adaptive Control Assist Compensators
2008 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit ; 2008 ; Honolulu, HI, United States
2008-07-18
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
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Englisch
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