Modeling and controller design for a hypersonic vehicle and its application in curriculum reform

Hypersonic aircrafts, unlike conventional aircrafts, owns special structure and unique shape. In this case, the elastic vibration of the fuselage makes its dynamical model more complicated and unstable. In this paper, the doublecantilever beam system is used to model equations of aircraft´s elastic vibration. With the consideration of the impact of vibration on the attack angle, forces and momentum, we establish dynamics equations of flexible hypersonic vehicle and design an adaptive control system with LQR method. On this basis, we propose that “control for the hypersonic vehicle” could be introduced as an instance of the control engineering in “Principal of Automatic Control“ for undergraduates, which could cultivate students´ ability to apply the theoretical tools to solve practical problems.