Saraf, Amitabh and Deodhare, Girish and Ghose, Debasish (1999) Synthesis of nonlinear controller to recover an unstable aircraft from poststall regime. In: Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 22 (5). pp. 710-717.
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Abstract
Dynamics of the aircraft configuration considered in this paper show a unique characteristic in that there are no stable attractors in the entire high angle-of-attack flight envelope. As a result, once the aircraft has departed from the normal flight regime, no standard technique can be applied to recover the aircraft. In this paper, using feedback linearization technique, a nonlinear controller is designed at high angles of attack, which is engaged after the aircraft departs from normal flight regime. This controller stabilizes the aircraft into a stable spin. Then a set of synthetic pilot inputs is applied to cause an automatic transition from the spin equilibrium to low angles of attack where the second controller is connected. This controller is a normal gain-scheduled controller designed to have a large domain of attraction at low angles of attack. It traps the aircraft into a low angle-of-attack level flight. This entire concept of recovery has been verified using six-degrees-of-freedom nonlinear simulation. Feedback linearization technique used to design a controller ensures internal stability only if the nonlinear plant has stable zero dynamics. Because zero dynamics depend on the selection of outputs, a new method of choosing outputs is described to obtain a plant that has stable zero dynamics. Certain important aspects pertaining to the implementation of a feedback linearization-based controller are also discussed.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics |
Publisher: | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. |
Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering(Formerly Aeronautical Engineering) |
Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2011 05:17 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2011 05:17 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/38832 |
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