Flight Control Design using Backstepping

• Today the prevailing nonlinear design method for aircraft flight control is feedback linearization. This paper presents a new method to deal with the nonlinear aerodynamic forces and moments acting on the aircraft: backstepping. Specifically, we derive backstepping control laws for angle of attack and sideslip control that requireless knowledge of the lift and side forces compared to feedback linearization designs. The control laws are made adaptive to errors in the aerodynamic moment coefficients using nonlinear observer techniques.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Reglerteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Control Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Aircraft control

Backstepping

Lyapunov functions

Inverse optimality

Automatic control

Reglerteknik

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

rap (subject category)