Nonlinear adaptive flight control system: Performance enhancement and validation

The problem of decreasing stability margins in L₁ adaptive control systems is discussed and an out-of-loop L₁ adaptive control scheme based on Lyapunov’s stability theorem is proposed. This scheme enhances the effectiveness of the adaptation, which ensures that the system has sufficient stability margins to achieve the desired performance under parametric uncertainty, additional delays, and actuator faults. The stability of the developed control system is demonstrated through a series of simulations. Compared with an existing control scheme, the constant adjustment of the stability margins by the proposed adaptive scheme allows their range to be extended by a factor of 4–5, bringing the stability margin close to that of variable gain PD control with adaptively scheduled gains. The engineered practicability of adaptive technology is verified. A series of flight tests verify the practicability of the designed adaptive technology. The results of these tests demonstrate the enhanced performance of the proposed control scheme with nonlinear parameter estimations under insufficient stability margins and validate its robustness in the event of actuator failures.     

Aircraft maneuverability improvement by direct lift control system application

The handling qualities of an aircraft will be improved if the Direct Lift Control (DLC) system is applied. In this paper, an attempt has been made to evaluate the influence of DLC-type system parameters on the aircraft's maneuverability and to determine the desired values of these parameters for the purpose of obtaining required values of the handling maneuverability criteria. Published papers which deal with direct lift control do not list requirements for evaluating handling qualities and maneuverability of aircraft equipped with DLC system. In this paper, three new criteria permitting the evaluation of results of employing DLC have been defined. Analysis of influence of DLC system parameters on selected known handling qualities criteria (for example CAP, C^*), as well as new DLC efficiency coefficients, have been illustrated with a numeric example of A4D “Skyhawk” fighter aircraft and PZL M-18 “Dromader” agricultural airplane control system modification.     

卫星姿态控制系统容错控制综述

主要针对卫星姿态系统容错控制研究领域已有的成果进行了回顾。总结了国内外卫星容错控制的现有成果,主要从卫星姿态控制系统的可重构性、单体卫星容错控制和卫星编队容错控制3个部分对相关的研究成果进行了归纳分析。其中,卫星姿态系统的可重构性从重构目标和系统功能要求两方面进行分析;对单体卫星容错控制现状的介绍主要从自适应技术、滑模理论、预设性能、干扰观测器、故障估计观测器几个方面展开;卫星编队容错控制方法从独立容错、协同容错、拓扑重构和组成重构的角度进行阐述。最后进行总结,并展望了卫星姿态控制系统容错控制领域未来可能出现的新问题和研究思路。     

尾座式无人飞行器鲁棒容错编队控制

针对尾座式无人飞行器编队在执行器故障、严重的非线性和耦合性、参数不确定性、外界扰动等影响下的容错控制问题进行了研究。提出了一种鲁棒容错编队控制方法来实现一群尾座式无人飞行器在执行器故障情况下的期望编队飞行。所构建的控制器由2部分组成：标称控制器和干扰补偿控制器。设计标称控制器使系统实现期望的控制性能,利用干扰补偿控制器抑制多种不确定性和执行器故障的影响。通过理论分析证明了系统的鲁棒稳定性,并通过数值仿真验证了算法的有效性。     

Wide-range model predictive control for aero-engine transient state

To perform transient state control of an aero-engine, a structure that combines linear controller and min–max selector is widely adopted, which is inherently conservative and therefore limits the fulfillment of the engine potential. Model predictive control is a new control method that has vast application prospects in the field of aero-engine control. Therefore, this paper proposes a wide-range model predictive controller that can control the engine over a wide range within the flight envelope....     

Consensus disturbance rejection control of directed multi-agent networks with extended state observer

This paper investigates the consensus disturbance rejection problem among multiple high-order agents with directed graphs.Based on disturbance observers,distributed consensus disturbance rejection protocols are constructed in leaderless and leader-follower consensus setups.Different from the previous related papers,the consensus protocols in this paper are developed in a fully distributed fashion,relying on only the state information of each agent and its neighbors.Sufficient conditions are prov...     

Distributed event-triggered adaptive control for second-order nonlinear uncertain multi-agent systems

In this paper, the event-triggered consensus control problem for nonlinear uncertain multi-agent systems subject to unknown parameters and external disturbances is considered. The dynamics of subsystems are second-order with similar structures, and the nodes are connected by undirected graphs. The event-triggered mechanisms are not only utilized in the transmission of information from the controllers to the actuators, and from the sensors to the controllers within each agent, but also in the communication between agents. Based on the adaptive backstepping method, extra estimators are introduced to handle the unknown parameters, and the measurement errors that occur during the event-triggered communication are well handled by designing compensating terms for the control signals. The presented distributed event-triggered adaptive control laws can guarantee the boundness of the consensus tracking errors and the Zeno behavior is avoided. Meanwhile, the update frequency of the controllers and the load of communication burden are vastly reduced. The obtained control protocol is further applied to a multi-input multi-output second-order nonlinear multi-agent system, and the simulation results show the effectiveness and advantages of our proposed method.     

基于事件触发的异构多智能体最优包含控制

针对异构多智能体系统的输出包含控制问题，提出一种基于边的事件触发最优控制协议，保证所有跟随者的输出能进入到由领航者的输出所形成的凸包中。同时，使系统达到最优性能，最小化控制代价。考虑到不是所有的跟随者都可获得领航者的信息，提出一种基于边的分布式事件触发观测器，估计领航者输出形成的凸包内点的轨迹。设计加权代价函数评价包含控制的性能，并将输出包含问题转化为最优状态反馈控制设计问题。利用贝尔曼方程和黎卡提方程，给出异构多智能体系统最优输出包含控制的参数设计。选择不同类型的机器人构成多智能体系统，验证算法的有效性。     

RESEARCH ON DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOR AND DESIGN OF CONTROL PARAMETER FOR NONLINEAR MAGNETIC-CONTROL SYSTEM

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Aircraft-on-ground path following control by dynamical adaptive backstepping

The necessity of improving the air traffic and reducing the aviation emissions drives to investigate automatic steering for aircraft to effectively roll on the ground. This paper addresses the path following control problem of aircraft-on-ground and focuses on the task that the aircraft is required to follow the desired path on the runway by nose wheel automatic steering. The proposed approach is based on dynamical adaptive backstepping so that the system model does not have to be transformed into a canonical triangular form which is necessary in conventional backstepping design. This adaptive controller performs well despite the lack of information on the aerodynamic load and the tire cornering stiffness parameters. Simulation results clearly demonstrate the advantages and effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Attitude tracking control for variable structure near space vehicles based on switched nonlinear systems

An adaptive robust attitude tracking control law based on switched nonlinear systems is presented for a variable structure near space vehicle (VSNSV) in the presence of uncertainties and disturbances. The adaptive fuzzy systems are employed for approximating unknown functions in the flight dynamic model and their parameters are updated online. To improve the flight robust performance, robust controllers with adaptive gains are designed to compensate for the approximation errors and thus they have less design conservation. Moreover, a systematic procedure is developed for the synthesis of adaptive fuzzy dynamic surface control (DSC) approach. According to the common Lyapunov function theory, it is proved that all signals of the closed-loop system are uniformly ultimately bounded by the continuous controller. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed control scheme.     

Closed-loop dynamic control allocation for aircraft with multiple actuators

A closed-loop control allocation method is proposed for a class of aircraft with multiple actuators. Nonlinear dynamic inversion is used to design the baseline attitude controller and derive the desired moment increment. And a feedback loop for the moment increment produced by the deflections of actuators is added to the angular rate loop, then the error between the desired and actual moment increment is the input of the dynamic control allocation. Subsequently, the stability of the closed-loop dynamic control allocation system is analyzed in detail. Especially, the closedloop system stability is also analyzed in the presence of two types of actuator failures: loss of effectiveness and lock-in-place actuator failures, where a fault detection subsystem to identify the actuator failures is absent. Finally, the proposed method is applied to a canard rotor/wing (CRW) aircraft model in fixed-wing mode, which has multiple actuators for flight control. The nonlinear simulation demonstrates that this method can guarantee the stability and tracking performance whether the actuators are healthy or fail.     

基于鲁棒故障观测器的非线性离散系统容错控制设计

针对存在执行器故障以及未知干扰的非线性离散系统,提出了一种鲁棒故障估计与容错控制方法。首先在未知系统干扰作用下,设计鲁棒故障观测器实现系统状态和执行器故障的同步估计;然后根据鲁棒故障观测器得到的系统状态估计和故障估计信息设计容错控制器,进行状态反馈容错控制,同时基于D稳定与H_∞控制理论对鲁棒故障观测器和容错控制器进行设计,实现了多约束条件下的故障估计与容错控制;最后用飞行控制系统模型验证了所提方法的有效性。     

Fuzzy robust nonlinear control approach for electro-hydraulic flight motion simulator

A fuzzy robust nonlinear controller for hydraulic rotary actuators in flight motion simulators is proposed. Compared with other three-order models of hydraulic rotary actuators, the proposed controller based on first-order nonlinear model is more easily applied in practice, whose control law is relatively simple. It not only does not need high-order derivative of desired command,but also does not require the feedback signals of velocity, acceleration and jerk of hydraulic rotary actuators. Another advantage is that it does not rely on any information of friction, inertia force and external disturbing force/torque, which are always difficult to resolve in flight motion simulators. Due to the special composite vane seals of rectangular cross-section and goalpost shape used in hydraulic rotary actuators, the leakage model is more complicated than that of traditional linear hydraulic cylinders. Adaptive multi-input single-output(MISO) fuzzy compensators are introduced to estimate nonlinear uncertain functions about leakage and bulk modulus. Meanwhile, the decomposition of the uncertainties is used to reduce the total number of fuzzy rules. Different from other adaptive fuzzy compensators, a discontinuous projection mapping is employed to guarantee the estimation process to be bounded. Furthermore, with a sufficient number of fuzzy rules, the controller theoretically can guarantee asymptotic tracking performance in the presence of the above uncertainties, which is very important for high-accuracy tracking control of flight motion simulators.Comparative experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, which can guarantee transient performance and better final accurate tracking in the presence of uncertain nonlinearities and parametric uncertainties.     

Finite-time sliding mode attitude control for a reentry vehicle with blended aerodynamic surfaces and a reaction control system

This paper proposes a finite-time robust flight controller, targeting for a reentry vehicle with blended aerodynamic surfaces and a reaction control system(RCS). Firstly, a novel finite-time attitude controller is pointed out with the introduction of a nonsingular finite-time sliding mode manifold. The attitude tracking errors are mathematically proved to converge to zero within finite time which can be estimated. In order to improve the performance, a second-order finite-time sliding mode controller is further developed to effectively alleviate chattering without any deterioration of robustness and accuracy. Moreover, an optimization control allocation algorithm, using linear programming and a pulse-width pulse-frequency(PWPF) modulator, is designed to allocate torque commands for all the aerodynamic surface deflections and on–off switching-states of RCS thrusters.Simulations are provided for the reentry vehicle considering uncertain parameters and external disturbances for practical purposes, and the results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the attitude control system.     

涵道风扇式无人机的优先级控制分配

涵道风扇式无人机是一种冗余配置操纵面的飞行器，其控制分配问题通常使用伪逆法求解，然而伪逆法不能对任意可达的期望力矩都返回容许控制，使冗余的操纵面牺牲了部分控制能力。提出一种优先级控制分配方法，该方法先对期望力矩进行矢量分解并划分优先级，再求解约束最优化问题得到容许控制。相比于伪逆法，所提出的方法可对更大范围的期望力矩返回容许控制，而且当期望力矩不可达时，可以防止系统因执行器饱和而产生输出耦合。将所提出的方法应用到涵道风扇式无人机的控制分配中，仿真及飞行试验验证了该方法的有效性。     

水面无人艇集群编队控制技术综述

随着海上作业任务的日渐复杂以及水面无人艇控制理论的发展，单水面无人艇航行控制能力的局限性逐渐显现，集群编队控制技术得到了广泛关注。针对水面无人艇集群编队控制技术，分析了当前国内外应用情况与技术研究现状，重点从典型编队队形适用性、编队控制系统结构形式、编队协同控制方法、编队控制通信技术及异构条件下协同控制技术等方面分析了水面无人艇集群编队控制技术的研究进展。最后，进行了总结和展望，以期为水面无人艇集群编队控制技术的研究提供有益的参考。     

Formation control for networked multiagent systems with a minimum energy constraint

Minimum-energy formation achievement problems for networked multiagent systems are investigated, where information networks with leaderless and leader-follower structures are respectively addressed and information networks are randomly switching. The critical feature of this work is that the energy constraint is minimum in the sense of the linear matrix inequality, but limited-budget control and guaranteed-cost control cannot realize a minimum-energy formation. Firstly, the leaderless minimum-energy formation control problem is converted into an asymptotic stability one via a nonsingular transformation and state space decomposition, and based on linear matrix inequality techniques, sufficient conditions for analysis and design of leaderless minimum-energy formation achievement are proposed, respectively, which can be solved by the generalized eigenvalue method. Then, main results of minimum-energy formation achievement of leaderless networked multiagent systems are extended leader-follower networked multiagent systems, where the asymmetric property of the leader-follower information network is well dealt with by two nonsingular transformations. Finally, two simulation examples are shown to verify the main results for minimum-energy formation achievements of leaderless and leader-follower networked multiagent systems, respectively.     

基于自由权矩阵的时变时延线性群系统编队控制

研究了基于自由权矩阵方法的时变时延线性群系统编队控制问题。首先,基于一致性理论,设计了具有时变时延的线性群系统编队控制协议。其次,通过变量代换,将时延条件下的线性群系统编队控制问题转化为时延系统的镇定问题。构造Lyapunov-Krasovskii函数,并利用自由权矩阵方法对时延系统的镇定问题进行分析,得到了保守性较小的线性矩阵不等式（LMI）判据,并求解出时延上界和编队控制器增益。最后,通过仿真实验,验证了方法的有效性。     

基于Kalman滤波的变体飞行器T-S模糊控制

针对变体飞行器的跟踪控制问题,提出了一种基于Kalman滤波的T-S模糊控制方法。考虑飞行器系统状态不可测,引入惯导数据作为辅助信息,利用Kalman滤波算法融合飞控信息与惯导信息实现状态估计。由于变体飞行器在不同变形结构下气动特性变化较大,为便于控制器设计,采用小扰动线性化方法得到飞行器在不同平衡点处的局部线性模型,并通过状态反馈方法设计局部控制器,局部线性模型和局部控制器通过模糊集和模糊规则聚合成一个连续光滑的全局T-S模糊模型和T-S模糊控制器。通过综合Kalman滤波器与T-S模糊控制器得到一个基于Kalman滤波的T-S模糊控制器。仿真结果表明,该控制器在变形过程中能够实现状态估计,保证飞机的跟踪性能。