Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control of a Canard Rotor/Wing VTOL Aircraft

Dehai Zhu, Yinong Zhang, Huimin Zhao, Ban Wang, Zhenghong Gao

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Abstract

The rapid development of civil vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft and its utilization in urban services bring new challenges to the design of flight control systems. The canard rotor/wing (CRW) aircraft, as a relatively complete concept of VTOL aircraft, has the advantages of high hovering efficiency and fast cruising speed. In order to obtain airworthiness certificate of CRW aircraft, the reliability and safety in flight should also be considered. Therefore, this paper proposes a fault-tolerant flight control system for the studied CRW aircraft with redundant actuators based on adaptive sliding mode controller. Firstly, the dynamic model of the CRW aircraft with uncertainties and faults is established. Then, to compensate for both uncertainties and actuator defects, an adaptive sliding mode control is created. Finally, two sets of simulation experiments are carried out to prove the effectiveness of the control strategy proposed in this paper. The simulation results show that the designed adaptive fault-tolerant control system can still maintain the tracking control performance of CRW aircraft under the conditions of parameter uncertainties and actuator faults.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Guidance, Navigation and Control - Proceedings of 2022 International Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control
EditorsLiang Yan, Haibin Duan, Yimin Deng, Liang Yan
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages3286-3294
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9789811966125
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
EventInternational Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, ICGNC 2022 - Harbin, China
Duration: 5 Aug 20227 Aug 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume845 LNEE
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, ICGNC 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period5/08/227/08/22

Keywords

  • Adaptive sliding mode control
  • Fault-tolerant control
  • VTOL

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