一种针对结构损伤的非线性容错飞行控制方法

飞机结构损伤会引起气动参数变化,进而影响系统的静稳定性和控制精度。针对具有多输入的非线性飞机模型,利用带有二阶命令滤波器的自适应反步控制方法在线估计飞机气动参数,补偿结构损伤导致的气动参数变化对控制系统的影响,以实现容错飞行控制功能;引入的命令滤波器可以避免反步控制中复杂的求导运算。从理论上分析证明了带有二阶命令滤波器的自适应反步控制的闭环系统稳定性,并给出了控制跟踪误差的理论上界和二阶命令滤波器频率参数选取的下界。通过一个大型客机垂直尾翼脱落场景的仿真实验,验证了所提容错控制方法的有效性。     

自适应滑模容错跟踪飞行控制律的设计

当飞行控制系统操纵面发生卡死或控制效率损伤故障时,采用自适应滑模控制方法进行容错跟踪飞行控制律的设计。采用单位向量法进行滑模控制器的设计,利用李雅普诺夫理论和Barbalat引理设计自适应滑模调节规律,同时能够保证闭环系统的渐近稳定性。利用某型飞机线性化模型进行仿真,结果表明,带有自适应调节规律的滑模控制方法不仅适合于正常情况下飞行控制律的设计,而且对操纵面损伤和卡死故障情况具有较强的适应能力,具有很好的跟踪控制效果和强鲁棒性。     

Stability analysis of digital linear flight controllers subject to electromagnetic disturbances

High intensity electromagnetic radiation has been demonstrated to be a source of computer upsets in commercially available digital flight control systems. Such upsets can degrade the quality of the control signal ranging from a perturbation error over a few sample periods to a permanent error mode or computer failure. Under these conditions, the primary concern of the control engineer is to insure that the closed-loop system remains stable. A stochastic disturbance model and a set of associated stability assessment tools are introduced for determining stability robustness of a nominal closed-loop system subject to electromagnetic disturbances. The focus is primarily on night control applications, but the methodology is suitable for any application where highly reliable digital control is needed. The technique is demonstrated on a simple test example and on a stabilizing controller for the longitudinal dynamics of the AFTI/F-16 aircraft.     

结冰飞机着陆阶段飞行安全包线确定及操纵应对策略

结冰会导致飞行安全包线收缩、严重威胁飞行安全,研究结冰后安全包线变化对于操纵应对策略设计及提高飞行安全具有重要意义。以美国国家航空航天局（NASA）的项目飞机GTM（Generic Transport Model）为研究对象,通过对飞机的气动参数进行多项式拟合,建立了结冰飞机纵向通道的动力学模型。为了得到能随结冰程度变化的安全包线,将可达性分析理论引入到对结冰飞机着陆过程的安全性分析。提出将正向可达集与反向可达集的交集作为飞行安全包线,其中可达集的确定是基于水平集方法求解哈密尔顿-雅克比方程的最优解。最后针对不同程度的结冰条件进行了操纵时域验证,并提出了相应的操纵控制策略。研究结果表明,轻度结冰对安全包线影响较小,整个着陆过程的飞行状态始终能在最优控制指导下保持在安全包线以内;但对于重度结冰,飞行安全包线收缩严重,常规操纵已经很难使飞机达到着陆要求,需要进行飞行状态改出处理。研究结果为指导飞行操纵及实时包线保护打下基础。     

Design of a modern pitch pointing control system

The development of a pitch pointing control system for an advanced high performance fighter aircraft using eigenstructure assignment and command generator tracking schemes is presented. A desired eigenstructure is first chosen to achieve a desired decoupling (i.e., pitch attitude and flight path angle), and to obtain a desired damping and rise time. The command generator tracker is next used to ensure zero steady-state error-to-step commands. The stability robustness to the parameter variations of the closed-loop system is evaluated in the sense of the conditioning of the achieved eigenstructure by using singular value analysis technique. The analysis and synthesis techniques for the pitch pointing control system are illustrated by applying the techniques to F-15 aircraft as a part of the NASA/USAF program named ACTIVE (Advanced Controls for integrated Vehicles)     

Future architecture of flight control systems

The development of fault tolerant embedded control systems such as flight control systems (FCS) are currently highly specialized and time-consuming. We introduce a conceptual architecture for the next decade control system where all control and logic are distributed to a number of computer nodes locally linked to actuators and connected via a communication network. In this way, we substantially reduce the life-cycle cost of embedded systems and attain scalable fault tolerance. All fault tolerance is based on redundancy. Our philosophy is to cover permanent faults with hardware replication and handle all error processing caused by both permanent and transient faults with software techniques. With intelligent nodes and use of inherent redundancy we introduce a robust and simple fault tolerant system that utilizes minimum hardware and has bandwidth requirements of less than 300 kbits/s, which can be met with an electrical bus. The study is based on an FCS for JAS 39 Gripen, a multi-role combat aircraft that is statically unstable at subsonic speed.     

飞机的模型参考容错控制

 本文针对飞机内部元件或控制元件的故障,用检测滤波器理论设计了相应的故障检测器和故障参数估计器,并用Lyapunov稳定性理论设计了模型参考自适应容错控制律,从而保证了在内部故障情况下飞行控制系统的稳定性。     

Bifurcation analysis and stability design for aircraft longitudinal motion with high angle of attack

Bifurcation analysis and stability design for aircraft longitudinal motion are investigated when the nonlinearity in flight dynamics takes place severely at high angle of attack regime. To predict the special nonlinear flight phenomena, bifurcation theory and continuation method are employed to systematically analyze the nonlinear motions. With the refinement of the flight dynamics for F-8 Crusader longitudinal motion, a framework is derived to identify the stationary bifurcation and dynamic bifurcation for high-dimensional system. Case study shows that the F-8longitudinal motion undergoes saddle node bifurcation, Hopf bifurcation, Zero-Hopf bifurcation and branch point bifurcation under certain conditions. Moreover, the Hopf bifurcation renders series of multiple frequency pitch oscillation phenomena, which deteriorate the flight control stability severely. To relieve the adverse effects of these phenomena, a stabilization control based on gain scheduling and polynomial fitting for F-8 longitudinal motion is presented to enlarge the flight envelope. Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

A two-stage approach for managing actuators redundancy and its application to fault tolerant flight control

In safety-critical systems such as transportation aircraft, redundancy of actuators is introduced to improve fault tolerance. How to make the best use of remaining actuators to allow the system to continue achieving a desired operation in the presence of some actuators failures is the main subject of this paper. Considering that many dynamical systems, including flight dynamics of a transportation aircraft, can be expressed as an input affine nonlinear system, a new state representation is adopted here where the output dynamics are related with virtual inputs associated with the intended operation. This representation, as well as the distribution matrix associated with the effectiveness of the remaining operational actuators, allows us to define different levels of fault tolerant governability with respect to actuators’ failures. Then, a two-stage control approach is developed, leading first to the inversion of the output dynamics to get nominal values for the virtual inputs and then to the solution of a linear quadratic(LQ) problem to compute the solicitation of each operational actuator. The proposed approach is applied to the control of a transportation aircraft which performs a stabilized roll maneuver while a partial failure appears. Two fault scenarios are considered and the resulting performance of the proposed approach is displayed and discussed.     

民用飞机飞控通电自检测安全性研究

民用飞机飞控通电自检测安全性分析周期假设为20 FH(Flight Hour,飞行小时),不能覆盖24 h,飞机全天利用率高,在下次执行飞控通电自检测之前可能会出现飞控通电自检测过期告警。为了提高飞机维修性,有必要对飞控通电自检测安全性进行研究。通过建立飞控系统失效条件关联的故障树并更新飞控通电自检测的暴露时间,在符合飞控系统I～IV类失效条件等级故障概率要求和千分之一判据情况下,安全性分析结果表明飞控通电自检测周期可以提高到30 FH。     

非相似余度飞控计算机

从容错的角度介绍了Boeing777和A320的数字飞行控制计算机系统。Boeing777和A320的飞控计算机都采用了非相似的余度技术,能容忍软件和硬件的共态故障,但在每个计算机的功能分配和整个飞控计算机系统的余度结构编排等方面体现了各自的特点。用广义随机Petri网描述了Boeing777余度结构和容错动态过程,并进行了系统的可靠性计算和容错度分析。针对中国"大型飞机"容错飞控系统的设计作了分析和建议。     

过驱动飞行器积分滑模容错控制方法

针对过驱动飞行控制系统中执行器故障时的协调分配问题,提出了一种基于积分滑模的容错飞行控制器设计方法.引入虚拟控制思想,构造了多执行器故障条件下飞行器层级结构控制的数学模型.运用小增益定理,推导了系统闭环稳定的充分条件,并基于线性矩阵不等式,建立了最优状态反馈的凸优化模型.以积分滑模面切换函数为变量,选取李雅普诺夫能量函数,设计了渐近稳定的积分滑模控制器.仿真结果表明,该方法可综合考虑执行器完好和故障时的控制效能,能够实现多操纵面容错飞行控制,具有较好的鲁棒性.     

操纵面故障对飞行包线的影响研究

进行飞机操纵机构故障时飞行包线估计对提高飞行安全具有重要意义。针对飞机操纵面故障特点,提出一种在线飞行包线估计方法。首先根据操纵面对飞行动力学参数的影响建立故障参数模型,然后应用基于遗忘因子的最小二乘参数估计方法进行气动参数的在线估计,最后基于参数估计结果进行包线的精确估算和分析,计算结果可为驾驶员和包线保护控制提供参考。仿真分析表明,该方法能精确估计飞行包线范围。     

Software intensive systems safety analysis

Two important elements in the avionics suite of modern aircraft are: the flight control system (FCS) and the flight management system (FMS). The FCS provides the capability to stabilize and control the aircraft, while the FMS is responsible for flight planning and navigation. A clear trend in the aerospace industry is to place greater reliance on software systems, and many FCS and FMS subsystems are implemented primarily in software. For example, within the FCS is the flight guidance system (FGS) that generates roll and pitch guidance commands. Similarly, within the FMS is the vertical navigation (VNAV) function that acts like a third crew member in the cockpit, ordering mode change requests and resetting target altitude values to enable the aircraft to track the vertical flight plan. We have developed formal, executable models of the requirements for the mode logic of a FGS and for portions of the VNAV functionality. We have also conducted a comprehensive software safety analysis on the FGS mode logic model, and are completing the analysis of the VNAV model. This analysis uses as its starting point several "traditional" safety analysis techniques such as a functional hazard assessment (FHA), a fault tree analysis (FTA), and a failure mode effects analysis (FMEA). However, we are also using formal methods techniques known as model checking and theorem proving to verify the presence of safety properties in the model. This paper summarizes the (now completed) safety analysis that was performed on the FGS model, and highlights the similarities and differences with the (still on-going) safety analysis of the FMS model. In particular, we summarize progress made to date in the use of formal methods to verify the presence of the required safety properties in the models themselves.     

遥控小型倾转旋翼机飞行控制系统研究

遥控小型倾转旋翼机飞行控制系统研制中所涉及到的关键技术众多,围绕研制中遇到的问题提出了解决措施和技术方案。本文主要讨论遥控小型倾转旋翼机飞行控制系统的系统的结构与配置,包括飞行控制计算机、传感器系统、电动伺服舵机、基本飞行控制规律等。     

飞行器阵风响应的CFD-6DOF仿真分析

飞行器在大气中飞行,不可避免地受到阵风的影响。阵风所附加的气动载荷引发飞行器飞行状态的改变,过大幅值的阵风影响飞行的性能与安全。针对这种状况,首先采用改进的Lamb-Ossen涡模型,建立尾涡形式的阵风场;然后采用基于CFD技术的非定常N-S方程求解,并在计算网格中引入"网格速度"来模拟阵风,对SWIM(Subsonic Wall Interference Model)尾涡中的定常气动特性进行验证;最后通过CFD-6DOF的耦合,对SWIM俯冲穿越尾涡场的飞行轨迹进行研究。结果表明:计算结果与实验值符合较好;SWIM在尾涡中飞行时出现抖动、下沉、改变飞行状态、剧烈翻转的现象,与实际飞行器进入尾涡中的轨迹特性类似。     

高性能飞机发展对控制理论的挑战

根据笔者30余年来飞行试验研究的实践,从实际飞行的角度简要综述了影响飞行安全的大迎角过失速机动、超低空重载空投、飞行器突发故障和无人机控制方法研究。描述了操纵稳定性飞行试验获取飞机模型的手段和通常飞行控制器设计对模型的近似,给出了8个飞行鲁棒控制的研究问题;对超低空重载空投控制方法进行了描述,并给出了飞行器出现故障时突变模型和容错控制方法;同时,描述了测量对飞行控制特别是对保障无人机飞行安全的重要性,指出了飞行控制方法研究存在的部分问题,并建议有关高校研究单位从稳定性很好的四旋翼转向固定翼或单旋翼战术无人机等高层次研究。     

Digital Flight Control Research Using Microprocessor Technology

The Flight Research Laboratory at Princeton University is engaged in an experimental program to investigate a variety of approaches to digital control by actual flight test. Experimentation is being conducted with Princeton's 6-DOF variableresponse research aircraft (VRA), which is equipped for direct side-force control, direct-lift control, feedback of all motion variables, and multiple-pilot command modes. VRA avionics have been augmented by a microprocessor digital flight control system (Micro-DFCS), which uses off-the-shelf computer components capable of operating in parallel or in series with the existing variable-response system. The digital control laws operate in conjunction either with the "bare airframe" dynamics of the VRA or with the dynamics of a simulated aircraft, provided by the existing variable-response system. The initial flight control computer program CAS-1 provides three longitudinal control options: direct (unaugmented) command, pitch rate command, and normal acceleration command. The latter two options are "Type 0" systems designed by linear-quadratic control theory. Future Micro-DFCS software will provide a variety of increasingly complex control options, including "Type 1," logic, gain scheduling, coupled 3-axis control, and "CCV" command modes.     

民用飞机飞控系统舵面卡阻试飞方法研究

某型民用飞机是我国首次全面采用CCAR25部进行适航取证的飞机型号,民航当局特别关注飞控系统舵面卡阻故障状态下的飞行试验验证。为了保证该民用飞机飞控系统舵面卡阻试飞顺利开展,针对舵面卡阻方案设置及卡阻试飞方法进行深入研究,提出三种舵面卡阻方案,对各方案优缺点进行分析,重点介绍卡阻故障模拟方案的原理及试飞安全控制方案,并根据适航标准要求制订具体的卡阻试飞方法;通过铁鸟台试验对卡阻故障模拟方案和卡阻试飞方法进行验证。结果表明：卡阻故障模拟方案满足舵面卡阻要求,卡阻试飞方案具有较高的可行性。     

"直接升力控制"空中加油控制系统模拟

研究采用“直接升力控制系统”，在俯仰角保持不变（θ=const)的情况下，空中加油时飞机的飞行动力学和飞行控制问题。采用F-15飞机（静不安定飞机）参数，完成了飞机空中加油过程线代模型的建立和运动关系的推导；进行了空中加油闭环过程的计算机模拟；结果证明这种方法是有效的。