Nonlinear Control Design for an Air-breathing Engine with State Estimation

Rajasekaran, J and Maity, A and Lal, A and Padhi, R (2009) Nonlinear Control Design for an Air-breathing Engine with State Estimation. In: American Control Conference 2009, June 10-12, 2009, Hyatt Regency Riverfront, St. Louis, MO, USA, pp. 913-918.

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Abstract

A nonlinear control design approach is presented in this paper for a challenging application problem of ensuring robust performance of an air-breathing engine operating at supersonic speed. The primary objective of control design is to ensure that the engine produces the required thrust that tracks the commanded thrust as closely as possible by appropriate regulation of the fuel flow rate. However, since the engine operates in the supersonic range, an important secondary objective is to ensure an optimal location of the shock in the intake for maximum pressure recovery with a sufficient margin. This is manipulated by varying the throat area of the nozzle. The nonlinear dynamic inversion technique has been successfully used to achieve both of the above objectives. In this problem, since the process is faster than the actuators, independent control designs have also been carried out for the actuators as well to assure the satisfactory performance of the system. Moreover, an extended Kalman Filter based state estimation design has been carried out both to filter out the process and sensor noises as well as to make the control design operate based on output feedback. Promising simulation results indicate that the proposed control design approach is quite successful in obtaining robust performance of the air-breathing system.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Series.:	PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE
Publisher:	IEEE
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Keywords:	Air-breathing engine; Combustion system; Dynamic Inversion; Extended Kalman Filter (EKF)
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering(Formerly Aeronautical Engineering)
Date Deposited:	08 Jan 2010 06:06
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:49
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/24237

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