Predefined-Time Active Fault-Tolerant Control of Transport Aircraft Subject to Control Surface Failures

This article presents a predefined-time (PdT)-based incremental backstepping with a PdT disturbance observer control scheme for transport aircraft. Based on this control scheme, an active fault-tolerant flight controller (AFTFC) is designed to achieve PdT fault-tolerant control under control surface...

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Published inIEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems Vol. 61; no. 3; pp. 5731 - 5744
Main Authors Li, Yu, Wang, Tianqi, Liu, Xiaoxiong, Wen, Chih-yung
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LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.06.2025
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Active fault-tolerant control (FTC)
Actuators
Aerodynamics
Aerospace electronics
Aircraft
Aircraft control
Atmospheric modeling
control surface failures
Control surfaces
Convergence
Design parameters
Disturbance observers
Fault tolerance
Fault tolerant systems
Flight control systems
incremental control
Initial conditions
predefined-time (PdT) control
Robustness
Simulation
Surface cracks
Transport aircraft
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Abstract This article presents a predefined-time (PdT)-based incremental backstepping with a PdT disturbance observer control scheme for transport aircraft. Based on this control scheme, an active fault-tolerant flight controller (AFTFC) is designed to achieve PdT fault-tolerant control under control surface failures. By constructing a nonlinear state transformation function, the damaged aircraft's attitude angles are restricted within a safe range. The designed AFTFC ensures that the damaged aircraft can robustly retrack its desired commands within a PdT with a bounded steady-state error, while the settling time is user-defined, which does not depend on the initial conditions or design parameters. More importantly, AFTFC also addresses the issue of robustness degradation due to state differentiation disturbances in traditional incremental control. Real-time simulation experiments are presented to verify the effectiveness of the designed AFTFC.
AbstractList This article presents a predefined-time (PdT)-based incremental backstepping with a PdT disturbance observer control scheme for transport aircraft. Based on this control scheme, an active fault-tolerant flight controller (AFTFC) is designed to achieve PdT fault-tolerant control under control surface failures. By constructing a nonlinear state transformation function, the damaged aircraft's attitude angles are restricted within a safe range. The designed AFTFC ensures that the damaged aircraft can robustly retrack its desired commands within a PdT with a bounded steady-state error, while the settling time is user-defined, which does not depend on the initial conditions or design parameters. More importantly, AFTFC also addresses the issue of robustness degradation due to state differentiation disturbances in traditional incremental control. Real-time simulation experiments are presented to verify the effectiveness of the designed AFTFC.
Author Li, Yu
Liu, Xiaoxiong
Wang, Tianqi
Wen, Chih-yung
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SubjectTerms Active fault-tolerant control (FTC)
Actuators
Aerodynamics
Aerospace electronics
Aircraft
Aircraft control
Atmospheric modeling
control surface failures
Control surfaces
Convergence
Design parameters
Disturbance observers
Fault tolerance
Fault tolerant systems
Flight control systems
incremental control
Initial conditions
predefined-time (PdT) control
Robustness
Simulation
Surface cracks
Transport aircraft
Title Predefined-Time Active Fault-Tolerant Control of Transport Aircraft Subject to Control Surface Failures
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