Nonlinear adaptive sliding mode tracking control of an airplane with wing damage

作者：Asadi D.^*; Bagherzadeh S. A.

来源：Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering , 2018, 232(8): 1405-1420.

DOI：10.1177/0954410017690546

• Damaged airplane
• adaptive
• sliding mode
• tracking controller
• timescale

This paper investigates a dual-timescale autopilot for a wing-damaged airplane applying nonlinear adaptive sliding mode approach. The adaptive flight control strategy is used to track outer-loop angle commands while accommodating wing damage effect. Two distinct adaptive sliding mode control strategies are designed for the inner- and outer-loop dynamics. The airplane nonlinear model is developed considering center of gravity shift and aerodynamic changes due to the asymmetric wing damage. The performance of the proposed nonlinear adaptive sliding mode controller is evaluated through numerical simulation on NASA generic transport model and is compared with two adaptive algorithms: model reference adaptive control and a robust adaptive control strategy. The results demonstrate that the proposed control law achieves closed-loop stability in the presence of wing damage and accelerometers bias, and also provides satisfactory tracking performance.

• 出版日期2018-6