Predictive Control of a Boeing 747 Aircraft using an FPGA

Predictive Control of a Boeing 747 Aircraft using an FPGA ?

New embedded predictive control applications call for more efficient ways of solving quadratic programs (QPs) in order to meet demanding real-time, power and cost requirements. A single precision QP-on-a-chip controller is proposed, implemented in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with an iterative linear solver at its core. A novel offline scaling procedure is introduced to aid the conver...

Application of Fdi to a Nonlinear Boeing-747 Aircraft

This paper presents a fault detection and isolation (FDI) filter design to linearized longitudinal dynamics of a Boeing 747 series 100/200. The FDI filter design based on fundamental problem of residual generation (FPRG). In our case the fault detection filter is sensitive to elevator and stabilizer fault. The three type of actuator failures considered in this paper are lock failure, loss in ef...

Reconfigurable LPV Control Design for a Boeing 747-100/200

Application of ∞ Fault Detection and Isolation to a Boeing 747-100/200 Aircraft

Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) methods have been developed over the past thirty years but only in the last several years they have been applied to complex real applications. This paper presents a synthesis of ∞ FDI filters for the longitudinal motion of the Boeing 747-100/200 aircraft. The filters are synthesized to detect and isolate faults in the elevator actuator and pitch rate sensor w...

Embedded Model Predictive Control (MPC) using a FPGA

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is increasingly being proposed for application to miniaturized devices, fast and/or embedded systems. A major obstacle to this is its computation time requirement. Continuing our previous studies of implementing constrained MPC on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), this paper begins to exploit the possibilities of parallel computation, with the aim of speeding...