Nonlinear Robust Control and Observation for Aeroelastic Launch Vehicles with Propellant Slosh in a Turbulent Atmosphere
E. Mooij (Astrodynamics & Space Missions)
Xuerui Wang (Aerospace Structures & Computational Mechanics)
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Abstract
This paper focuses on the attitude control and propellant slosh suppression of aeroelastic launch vehicles in a turbulent atmosphere. For a ve-degree pitch-angle block command, the tracking performance of the selected Incremental Non-Linear Dynamic Inversion Sliding Mode Controller (INDI-SMC) shows excellent tracking performance. However, turbulence still inevitably leads to oscillatory behaviour in the swivel command. Various lter designs have been implemented to improve the smoothness of INDI-SMC. Using either a notch or band-pass lter in the sensor-feedback loops of pitch angle and pitch rate only marginally reduced the swivel oscillations, but did not solve the problem for the rigid-body control. For the exible launcher with slosh dynamics, ltering of the sensor-feedback signals reduced the oscillations in swivel command, and elastic and slosh motion signi cantly, but could not completely remove them. The preliminary design of a rigid-body state observer has been included, and the results show that the INDI-SMC controller remains stable in the presence of engine dynamics, sloshing, exible modes, input errors due to the use of rigid-body and slosh-state observers, while ying in a turbulent wind field.