Nonlinear Large Maneuver Control of Thrust Vector UAV for Flying-Wing Layout

Zhuoying Chen, Huiping Li, Huaimin Chen, Shaobo Zhou

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Abstract

The flying-wing layout UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) adopts the aerodynamic layout of wing-body fusion. Compared with conventional aircraft, the cancellation of vertical tail and other protruding components reduces the cross-sectional area of radar reflection, but also brings about directional static instability, transverse & longitudinal aerodynamic coupling and other defects, which bring challenges to the design of control law. Therefore, an improved dynamic inverse algorithm is proposed in this paper, which constructs a pseudo-linear system to eliminate nonlinear factors of the original system. Moreover, the effectiveness of the method is verified by route-Tracking simulation. Since the relative shorter steering force arm and rapid decrease of control surface efficiency, flying-wing UAV is difficult to realize maneuver flight only by relying on the aerodynamic moment. Therefore, this paper designs a control allocation method based on serial-chain. The additional control moment generated by the vector thrust is used to compensate for the shortage of aerodynamic moment. The maneuverability of the aircraft is effectively enhanced and the simulation of Immelman large maneuver is completed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2023 IEEE 12th Data Driven Control and Learning Systems Conference, DDCLS 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages763-769
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9798350321050
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event12th IEEE Data Driven Control and Learning Systems Conference, DDCLS 2023 - Xiangtan, China
Duration: 12 May 202314 May 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2023 IEEE 12th Data Driven Control and Learning Systems Conference, DDCLS 2023

Conference

Conference12th IEEE Data Driven Control and Learning Systems Conference, DDCLS 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXiangtan
Period12/05/2314/05/23

Keywords

  • Dynamic inversion
  • Flying-wing layout
  • Immelman maneuver
  • Thrust vector

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