Handling Quality Improvements for the Flying-V Aircraft using Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion

Considerable growth in the number of passengers and cargo transported by air is predicted. Moreover, aircraft noise and climate impact become increasingly important factors in aircraft design. These existing challenges in aviation boost interest in the design of innovative aircraft configurations. One of these configurations is a V-shaped flying...

Modelling and Handling Quality Assessment of the Flying-V Aircraft

Considerable growth in the number of passengers and cargo transported by air is predicted. Besides that, aircraft noise and climate impact become increasingly important factors in aircraft design. These existing challenges in aviation boost interest in the design of innovative aircraft configurations. One of these configurations is a V-shaped...

Incremental Backstepping Sliding Mode Fault-Tolerant Flight Control

Fault-tolerant flight control has the potential of improving the aircraft survivability in real life. This paper proposes an Incremental Backstepping Sliding Mode Control (IBSMC) framework for multi-input/output nonlinear strict-feedback systems considering model uncertainties, sudden faults, and external disturbances. This approach is a...

Comparison of three control structures for inducing higher-order sliding modes

For mitigating the chattering effect in the sliding mode control (SMC), many adaption mechanisms have been proposed to reduce the switching gains. However, less attention is paid to the control structure, which influences the resulting uncertainty term and determines the minimum possible gains. This paper compares three control structures for...

Flexible Aircraft Gust Load Alleviation with Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion

In this paper, an Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (INDI) controller is<br/>developed for the flexible aircraft gust load alleviation (GLA) problem. First, a flexible aircraft model captures both inertia and aerodynamic coupling effects between flight dynamics and structural vibration dynamics is presented. Then an INDI GLA controller is...

Stability Analysis for Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion Control

As a sensor-based control approach, the Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (INDI) method has been successfully applied on various aerospace systems and shown desirable robust performance to aerodynamic model uncertainties. However, its previous derivations based on the so-called time scale separation principle is not mathematically rigorous...

Gust Load Alleviation and Ride Quality Improvement with Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion