The focus of this paper is on control design and simulation for an air-breathing hypersonic vehicle. The challenges for control design in this class of vehicles lie in the inherent coupling between the propulsion system, and the airframe dynamics, and the presence of strong flexibility effects. Working from a highly nonlinear, dynamically-coupled simulation model, control designs are presented for velocity, angle-of-attack, and altitude command input tracking for a linearized version of a generic air-breathing hypersonic vehicle model linearized about a specific trim condition. Control inputs for this study include elevator deflection, total temperature change across the combustor, and the diffuser area ratio. Two control design methods are presented, both using linear quadratic techniques with integral augmentation, and are implemented in tracking control studies. The first approach focuses on set point tracking control, whereas in the second, a regulator design approach is taken. The effectiveness of each control design is demonstrated in simulation on the full nonlinear model of the generic vehicle.
Reference Command Tracking for a Linearized Model of an Air-Breathing Hypersonic Vehicle
2005
15 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Aerodynamics , Avionics , Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, & Mathematical Logic , Aircraft , Hypersonic vehicles , Air breathing , Flight control systems , Tracking , Nonlinear systems , Aerodynamic forces , Air-breathing hypersonic vehicles , Linear controllers , Vehicle geometry , Linear quadratic regulation , Lqr controllers , Integral augmentation