Innovative design methods are needed for advanced aircraft in response to requirements towards substantial performance improvements. Functionally and operationally, the aircraft must be considered as the highly coupled non-linear multi-input multi-output system, i.e. the aerodynamics have to be mapped by non-linear differential or difference equations. To improve flying and handling qualities, to increase manœuvrability and to expand the operating envelope, an innovative optimization procedure is developed to design the constrained controllers for multi-input multi-output aircraft. In particular, a bounded control law is synthesized by employing the Hamilton-Jacobi theory, and the admissibility concept is used to study the stability of the resulting closed-loop system. The developed optimization procedure is applied to a non-linear ninth-order model of an AFTI/F-16 aircraft. A bounded controller is designed, and modelling results are presented to demonstrate the dynamic performance of the resulting closed-loop system.


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    Title :

    Non-linear multivariable flight control of aircraft


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1998-02-01


    Size :

    8 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English