Abstract At TU Berlin’s department of Flight Mechanic, Flight Control and Aeroelasticity the concept of a Multi-Body High Altitude Long Endurance aircraft is investigated for surveillance and communication tasks. This aircraft consists of several individual aircraft that are coupled in the mission altitude to a formation with a high aspect ratio. In a first phase, the aircraft was designed for a continuous one year mission in 20 Km height and a model to present the dynamics of the formation was set up. This paper describes the flight path control laws for a Multi-Body Aircraft. Frequency domain techniques are used for the inner-loop design, while the outer-loops are designed with classical flight control concepts. The controller is validated in a nonlinear flight simulation environment.


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    Title :

    Flight Path Control for a Multi-body HALE Aircraft


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2017-12-15


    Size :

    22 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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