Abstract
The robust adaptive control of tilt-rotor aircraft is addressed using backstepping and θ-D based control design techniques. The designs specifically focus on providing high robustness to time-varying system parameters and disturbance effects from the environment to attain good disturbance attenuation properties in highly aerodynamically challenging environments such as shipboard environments. The control system is structured with a modular architecture combining adaptive backstepping and adaptive θ-D control algorithms and provides flexibility and customizability for various tilt-rotor aircraft configurations and operating environments. The overall control system and its constituent algorithms are designed to either be able to operate on their own to provide fully autonomous flight or to operate in conjunction with a human pilot or an existing baseline controller in a control augmentation fashion to provide additional robustness and reliability improvements under severe aerodynamic disturbance conditions. The robustness, stability, and performance of the proposed control algorithms are demonstrated through simulation based studies.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | 2011 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2011 |
Pages | 540-545 |
Number of pages | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2011 |
Event | 2011 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2011 - Corfu, Greece Duration: Jun 20 2011 → Jun 23 2011 |
Publication series
Name | 2011 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2011 |
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Other
Other | 2011 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2011 |
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Country/Territory | Greece |
City | Corfu |
Period | 6/20/11 → 6/23/11 |
Keywords
- SDRE
- Tilt-rotor aircraft
- adaptive control
- backstepping
- flight control
- robustness
- θ-D
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering