A gain scheduled multivariable design for a manual flight control system

Author

Adams, Robert J. ; Sparks, Andrew G. ; Banda, Siva S.

Author_Institution

Wright Lab., Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH, USA

fYear

1992

Firstpage

584

Abstract

A full envelope multivariable flight control system is developed for the Variable Stability In-Flight Simulator Test Aircraft (VISTA). Separate control laws are designed for the longitudinal and lateral directional axes. Output feedback controllers with integral error states are created using linear quadratic synthesis and simple linear transformations. Linear point designs are integrated into a gain schedule to create a full-envelope nonlinear control system

Keywords

aircraft control; attitude control; control system synthesis; feedback; multivariable control systems; nonlinear control systems; VISTA; Variable Stability In-Flight Simulator Test Aircraft; aircraft control; full envelope multivariable flight control system; gain scheduled multivariable design; integral error states; lateral directional axes; linear quadratic synthesis; longitudinal directional axes; nonlinear control system; output feedback control; Aerospace control; Aerospace simulation; Aircraft; Control system synthesis; Error correction; Linear feedback control systems; Nonlinear control systems; Output feedback; Stability; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Applications, 1992., First IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0047-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCA.1992.269809

Filename

269809