Adaptive Control for The Flying V
R.H.A. Ul Haq (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
E. van Kampen – Mentor (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
C.C. de Visser – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
M.J. Ribeiro – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
D. Atmaca – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
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Abstract
Sustainability is a key commitment for future innovation and improvement of the aerospace industry with active research invested towards advanced and new aircraft designs such as the FLYING V, which is a flying wing design for commercial aviation, promising higher efficiency against conventional tube-and-wing aircraft. The Flight Control System (FCS) must be designed to prove the airworthiness of the aircraft. In this work, a fault-tolerant FCS is designed with adaptive Incremental Dynamic Inversion (INDI) rate control law and outer loop with longitudinal, lateral and directional control laws. The study evaluates the fault tolerance of the adaptive INDI with a structural fault case that results in a loss of effectiveness, and it is shown that the adaptation allows the aircraft to cope with the faults and maintain satisfactory tracking performance at different flight conditions.