Taking robust LPV control into flight on the VAAC Harrier

Author

Papageorgiou, George ; Glover, Keith ; D´Mello, Glenn ; Patel, Yoge

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Cambridge Univ., UK

Volume

5

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

4558

Abstract

Describes the application of a multivariable control system design procedure, linear parameter-varying (LPV) H_∞ loop shaping, to design a flight controller for the pitch dynamics of the vectored thrust aircraft advanced flight control (VAAC) Harrier. The particular LPV design procedure used was developed by Papageorgiou and Glover (2000) and is an advancement of the H_∞ design method successfully flight tested in 1993 on the VAAC Harrier in that the control laws are automatically scheduled over the flight envelope. Automatically scheduled control laws are a strong and very likely candidate for the next generation of flight control systems (FCS). The flight test of the LPV controller described here is the first of its kind in the international aerospace community and is recognised as a key milestone in the general development of next generation FCS design methods

Keywords

H^∞ control; aircraft control; control system synthesis; linear systems; military aircraft; multivariable control systems; robust control; VAAC Harrier; flight controller; flight envelope; linear parameter-varying H_∞ loop shaping; multivariable control system design procedure; pitch dynamics; vectored thrust aircraft advanced flight control Harrier; Aerodynamics; Aerospace control; Aerospace testing; Aircraft; Automatic generation control; Automatic testing; Control systems; Design methodology; Robust control; Shape control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 2000. Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

ISSN

0191-2216

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6638-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.2001.914633

Filename

914633