Fault Tolerant Flight Control System Design by Dual-Loop Control Strategy
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چکیده
This paper describes a dual-loop control scheme for fault tolerant flight control system design. The dual-loop controller consists of an outer loop controller–so-called adaptive neural sliding mode control (ANSC) and an inner loop controller designed by using nonlinear dynamic inversion (NDI) technique. The merits of adaptive neural network and sliding mode control scheme are that 1) the ability of adaptive neural network control to deal with unstructured uncertainty and 2) the ability of sliding mode control to guarantee transient response. Using timescale separation principal, the aircraft dynamics can be decomposed into fast and slow dynamics and the decomposed dynamics are inversed for NDI controllers. For real-time pilot simulation, one-stage inverse dynamics is used and the pilot inputs are translated to roll, pitch and yaw rate commands. For cascade NDI, two-stage dynamic inversion is used. The stability analysis of the proposed controller is performed using Lyapunov theory. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme, numerical simulation is performed for six degree-of-freedom nonlinear aircraft model while a failure occurs in longitudinal control surface. Simulation results demonstrate that closedloop system has good performance while encountering lock-in-place, partial destruction and floating actuator failures.
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