Coordinated Control of Deformation and Flight for Morphing Aircraft Via Meta-Learning and Coupled State-Dependent Riccati Equations

In this article, the coordinated control problem of deformation and flight for morphing aircraft (MA) is studied by using meta-learning (ML) and coupled state-dependent Riccati equations (CSDREs). Our method is built on two principal observations that dynamic models of MA under varying morphing conditions share a morphing condition independent representation function and that the specific morphing condition part lies in a set of linear coefficients. To that end, the domain adversarially invariant ML is employed to learn the shared representation with offline flight data. Based on the learned representation function, the coordinated control of the deformation and flight for MA is formulated as a noncooperative differential game. The Nash equilibrium strategy can be derived by addressing a pair of CSDREs. For this purpose, Lyapunov iterations are extended to obtain the stabilizing solutions of the CSDREs, and the convergence proof of the proposed algorithm is provided. Finally, a simulation study is carried out to validate the efficacy of the developed coordinated game control strategies.