this paper presents a gain scheduled autopilot for pitch channel of a flying vehicle. the selected method is based on polynomial fuzzy systems. the method does not involve linearization about operating point. first the polynomial fuzzy model of pitch channel of the flight body is derived. next, using polynomial fuzzy system methodology the controller is design such that the outputs of the nonli...

In this paper, we propose a method for designing continuous gain scheduled H-infinity observer for uncertain nonlinear continuous stirred-tank reactor system subject to time-delay and actuator saturation. Initially, gradient linearization procedure is applied to describe such nonlinear system into several linear systems. Next, a convex hull set is investigated in order to transform the actuator...

Next-generation aircraft with a large number of actuators will require advanced control allocation methods to compute the actuator commands needed to follow desired trajectories while respecting system constraints. Previously, algorithms were proposed to minimize the l1 or l2 norms of the tracking error and of the actuator deflections. This paper discusses the alternative choice of the l1 norm,...