Integration of phase plane flight envelope protections in cascaded incremental flight control

Agnes Christine Gabrys; Rasmus Steffensen; Rafael de Angelis Cordeiro; José Raul Azinheira; Alexandra Moutinho; Florian Holzapfel

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.11.281

Integration of phase plane flight envelope protections in cascaded incremental flight control

Agnes Christine Gabrys
, Rasmus Steffensen
, Rafael de Angelis Cordeiro
, José Raul Azinheira
, Alexandra Moutinho
, Florian Holzapfel

Chair of Flight System Dynamics

Technical University of Munich
Instituto Superior Técnico

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Abstract

With advances in incremental non-linear flight control, new challenges and possibilities for incorporating efficient flight envelope protections arise. Investigation of a phase plane based command and virtual control limiting pitch angle protection in the reference model of a cascaded incremental backstepping controller is performed for a commercial aircraft model. This provides an almost model free design of a combined flight control law and envelope protection. Verification through simulation shows that accurate predictable response behaviour is obtained close to the limit, which permits a protection that minimizes the interference into the nominal control.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	429-435
Number of pages	7
Journal	IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)
Volume	52
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.11.281
State	Published - Oct 2019
Event	21st IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, ACA 2019 - Cranfield, United Kingdom Duration: 27 Aug 2019 → 30 Aug 2019

Keywords

Attitude control
Cascaded control
Envelope protection
Incremental control
Nonlinear flight control

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