This paper focuses on the development of an intelligent control technology for in-flight drag reduction. The system is integrated with and demonstrated on the full X-48B nonlinear simulation. The intelligent control system utilizes a peak-seeking control method implemented with a time-varying Kalman filter. Performance functional coordinate and magnitude measurements, or independent and dependent parameters respectively, are used by the Kalman filter to provide the system with gradient estimates of the designed performance function which is used to drive the system toward a local minimum in a steepestdescent approach. To ensure ease of integration and algorithm performance, a single-input single-output approach was chosen. The framework, specific implementation considerations, simulation results, and flight feasibility issues related to this platform are discussed.


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    Title :

    Intelligent Control for Drag Reduction on the X-48B Vehicle


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control ; 2011 ; Portland, OR, United States


    Publication date :

    2011-08-08


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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