Rate-Based Model Predictive Control of Turbofan Engine Clearance

Rate-Based Model Predictive Control of Turbofan Engine Clearance

Multiplexed Predictive Control of a Large Commercial Turbofan Engine

Model predictive control is a strategy well-suited to handle the highly complex, nonlinear, uncertain, and constrained dynamics involved in aircraft engine control problems. However, it has thus far been infeasible to implement model predictive control in engine control applications, because of the combination of model complexity and the time allotted for the control update calculation. In this...

Turbofan engine control design using robust multivariable control technologies

A unified robust multivariable approach to propulsion control design has recently been developed at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center (GRC). The critical elements of this unified approach are 1) a robust H-infinity control synthesis formulation; 2) a simplified controller scheduling scheme; and 3) a new approach to the synthesis of integrator windup prot...

Adaptive Model Predictive Control of Diesel Engine

Robust Model Identification Application to a Turbofan Engine

In this paper we describe an application of a robust identification approach to a turbofan engine. The approach combines classical time-data system identification via prediction error models and the so-called model error model theory. The model error model approach provides guidelines for the characterization of the model uncertainty stemming from the nominal system identification and fits natu...