Duality Between Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion and Transformation-Based Quasi-Linear Parameter-Varying Control

Conference Paper (2026)
Author(s)

T.S.C. Pollack (TU Delft - Control & Simulation)

Spilios Theodoulis (TU Delft - Control & Simulation)

Xuerui Wang (TU Delft - Group Wang, TU Delft - Aerospace Structures & Computational Mechanics)

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https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2026-0108 Final published version
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Publication Year
2026
Language
English
Article number
AIAA 2026-0108
Publisher
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA)
ISBN (print)
9781624107658
ISBN (electronic)
978-1-62410-765-8
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Abstract

This paper presents a transformation-based robust nonlinear control design framework based on the concepts of Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (INDI) and quasi-Linear Parameter-Varying (q-LPV) control. The duality between these popular control design paradigms is investigated. Control-oriented q-LPV model representations of (I)NDI-based closed-loop systems are presented for various inversion strategies, which creates a basis for robust synthesis and analysis of (I)NDI-based designs in the LPV sense. This includes extensions to singular perturbations that limit exact inversion in reality. The presented approach is demonstrated in a design case study for a nonlinear aeroservoelastic system, where INDI-based controllers are synthesized and quantitatively compared with direct q-LPV control based on linear fractional transformations.

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