Attitude control of the landing demonstrator PHOENIX

Author

Strauch, Hans

Author_Institution

Dept. of Flight Dynamics & Flight S/W Syst., EADS Space Transp., Bremen

fYear

2006

fDate

4-6 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

2902

Lastpage

2907

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CACSD-CCA-ISIC.2006.4777099

Filename

4777099