Investigation of control algorithm for airship before indoor experiment

Author

Herman, Przemyslaw ; Adamski, Wojciech

Author_Institution

Dept. of Control & Syst. Eng., Poznan Univ. of Technol., Poznan, Poland

fYear

2014

fDate

16-19 June 2014

Firstpage

1196

Lastpage

1201

Abstract

An application of the set-point controller expressed in generalized velocity components for an airship is presented in this paper. The nonlinear controller was proposed originally for fully actuated underwater vehicles. However, in this work it is shown that the same controller can be used for an airship, thanks the velocity transformation, and it is able to detect risk resulting from lost or reduction gain coefficients. Consequently, the shown approach appears an useful tool for investigation of the control algorithm in case of some flight disturbances of motion. It is worth of notice that the analysis gives further insight into the airship dynamics. The performance of the applied controller is tested by simulation on a 6-DOF model of the airship.

Keywords

airships; nonlinear control systems; airship dynamics; control algorithm; generalized velocity components; lost coefficients; motion flight disturbances; nonlinear controller; reduction gain coefficients; risk detection; set-point controller; Atmospheric modeling; Convergence; Couplings; Mathematical model; Matrix decomposition; Symmetric matrices; Vectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control and Automation (MED), 2014 22nd Mediterranean Conference of

Conference_Location

Palermo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5900-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MED.2014.6961538

Filename

6961538