Lateral flight control design for a highly flexible aircraft using a nonsmooth method

Author

Simöes, A.M. ; Alazard, D. ; Tuan, H.D. ; Apkarian, P.

Author_Institution

Control Syst. Dept., ONERA-CERT, Toulouse, France

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

696

Lastpage

701

Abstract

This paper describes a nonsmooth optimization technique for designing a lateral flight control law for a highly flexible aircraft. Flexible modes and high-dimensional models pose a major challenge to modern control design tools. We show that the nonsmooth approach offers potent and flexible alternatives in this difficult context. More specifically, the proposed technique is used to achieve a mix of frequency domain as well as time domain requirements for a set of different flight conditions.

Keywords

aircraft control; control system synthesis; optimisation; time-frequency analysis; flexible aircraft; frequency domain system; high-dimensional models; lateral flight control design; nonsmooth optimization technique; time domain system; Aerospace control; Aircraft; Bandwidth; Control design; Design methodology; Design optimization; Filters; Reduced order systems; Time domain analysis; Tuning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 2009 held jointly with the 2009 28th Chinese Control Conference. CDC/CCC 2009. Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

0191-2216

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3871-6

Electronic_ISBN

0191-2216

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.2009.5400576

Filename

5400576