Title :
Attitude control of the landing demonstrator PHOENIX
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Flight Dynamics & Flight S/W Syst., EADS Space Transp., Bremen
Abstract :
Phoenix is a national German un-powered landing demonstrator, which was designed as a precursor project within the frame of the next generation launcher program. A first in-flight demonstration has been successfully performed in May 2004 with three fully automated landings on a concrete landing strip at the NEAT test range in Sweden. The emphasis of this paper is on the attitude control of Phoenix. After a brief summary of the overall control structure, the paper describes in detail the design steps leading to the attitude control algorithm and presents flight data from the test
Keywords :
aircraft control; attitude control; control system synthesis; Phoenix; attitude control; flight data; inflight demonstration; next generation launcher program; unpowered landing demonstrator; Aerodynamics; Attitude control; Automatic control; Global Positioning System; Helicopters; Navigation; Nose; Testing; Vehicle dynamics; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Aided Control System Design, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, 2006 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9797-5
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-9797-5
DOI :
10.1109/CACSD-CCA-ISIC.2006.4777099
