Validation of flight control law based on LFT and structured singular value

The main goal of flight clearance is to use the structured singular value (μ) analysis of the flight control system when some parameters in the system vary in a certain range. As the μ-analysis can only be done on a linear fractional transformation (LFT) model, the first step of flight clearance is to generate the LFT model of the flight control system. In this paper, based on the introduction of basic theory of LFT and μ-analysis, an X-fighter is chosen as an example to utilize the proposed methods. In order to realize the flight clearance process automatically, a novel software package based on MATLAB programming language is developed. The results of simulation experiments validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the novel methods proposed in this paper.