Simple adaptive control for aircraft control surface failures

This work extends the so-called simple adaptive control approach to direct model reference adaptive control of multi-input multi-output systems to include loss of control effectiveness failures. It is proven that all signals are bounded for loss of control effectiveness failures during a bounded input disturbance. A state space approach is introduced for computing the feedforward compensator that is required by the stability result. The adaptive algorithm is applied to a three input model of the linearized lateral dynamics of the F/A-18 aircraft. Simulation results are obtained with single, double, and triple control effectiveness failures of 88% during the occurrence of a lateral gust. These results show that the adaptive controller exhibits improved model following as compared with a fixed gain eigenstructure assignment controller.     

Implicit Adaptive Control for a Class of MIMO Systems

Two implicit model reference adaptive control algorithms for multi-input multi-output systems are developed. These algorithms do not require either satisfaction of the perfect model following conditions or explicit parameter identification. The first algorithm ensures asymptotic stability of the output error provided that the output stabilized plant transfer matrix is strictly positive real. The second algorithm guarantees a bounded error under less restrictive conditions. The algorithms are applied to the lateral axis of an F-8 aircraft.