Preview-Based Altitude Control for a Very Flexible Flying Wing with Lidar Wind Measurements

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Abstract

This paper investigates the preview-based altitude control of a very flexible flying wing model. The preview control system employs a two-loop control scheme, which is designed based on the reduced-order linear model. The outer loop employs PI/LADRC (linear active disturbance rejection control) algorithms to track the altitude reference command and generate pitch angle command to the inner loop, based on which the inner loop uses mathbf{H}-{infty} preview control to compute the control inputs to the corresponding control effectors. A Lidar (light detection and ranging) simulator is developed to measure the wind disturbances at a distance in front of the aircraft, which are provided to the inner-loop mathbf{H}-{infty} preview controller as prior knowledge to improve control performance. Simulation tests are conducted based on the full-order nonlinear model, which show that the preview-based altitude control system achieves better tracking effectiveness and disturbance rejection performance than the baseline non-preview control system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages4289-4294
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538613955
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jul 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2018 - Miami, United States
Duration: 17 Dec 201819 Dec 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Volume2018-December
ISSN (Print)0743-1546
ISSN (Electronic)2576-2370

Conference

Conference57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMiami
Period17/12/1819/12/18

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