MULTI-CONTROLLER STRUCTURE OF SUPERMANEUVERABLE AIRCRAFT

Supermaneuver flight is often operated withhigh angle- of- attack and high angular rates.Su-per- maneuver flight cannot be controlled by aconventional gain- scheduled controller but canbe controlled by using a nonlinear dynamic- in-version controller1～ 3] .　　 This paper presents a method to use twokinds of controllers,nonlinear dynamic- inver-sion and conventional gain- scheduled con-trollers,in a flight control system.The nonlin-ear dynamic- inversion controller is used to con-trol superm…

MULTI-CONTROLLER STRUCTURE OF SUPERMANEUVERABLE AIRCRAFT

This paper proposes a method of using multi-controllers to control supermaneuverable aircraft. A nonlinear dynamic-inversion controller is used for supermaneuver. A gain-scheduled controller is used for routine maneuver. A switch algorithm is designed to switch the controllers. The flight envelopes of the controllers are different but have a common area in which the controllers are switched from one to the other. In the common area, some special boundaries are selected to decide switch conditions. The controllers all use vector-thrust for lower velocity maneuver control. Unlike the variation-structure theory to use a single boundary, this paper uses two boundaries for switching between the two controllers. One boundary is used for switching from dynamic-inversion to gain-scheduling, while the other is used for switching from gain-scheduling to dynamic-inversion. This can effectively avoid the system vibration caused by switching repeatedly at a single boundary. The method is very easy for engineering. It can reduce the risk of design of the supermaneuverable aircraft.