Stability and Performance Metrics for Adaptive Flight Control
V. Stepanyan, K. Krishnakumar, N. Nguyen
Aug 10, 2009
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Key Takeaway Key Takeaway: This paper introduces a set of control verification metrics for adaptive flight control, comparing uncertain aircraft behavior under adaptive controllers to a closed-loop linear reference model, providing unified evaluation for safe flight in adverse conditions.
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This paper addresses the problem of verifying adaptive control techniques for enabling safe flight in the presence of adverse conditions. Since the adaptive systems are non-linear by design, the existing control verification metrics are not applicable to adaptive controllers. Moreover, these systems are in general highly uncertain. Hence, the system's characteristics cannot be evaluated by relying on the available dynamical models. This necessitates the development of control verification metrics based on the system's input-output information. For this point of view, a set of metrics is introduced that compares the uncertain aircraft's input-output behavior under the action of an adaptive controller to that of a closed-loop linear reference model to be followed by the aircraft. This reference model is constructed for each specific maneuver using the exact aerodynamic and mass properties of the aircraft to meet the stability and performance requirements commonly accepted in flight control. The proposed metrics are unified in the sense that they are model independent and not restricted to any specific adaptive control methods. As an example, we present simulation results for a wing damaged generic transport aircraft with several existing adaptive controllers.