Control Design for Nonlinear Flexible Wings of a Robotic Aircraft

In this brief, the control problem for flexible wings of a robotic aircraft is addressed by using boundary control schemes. Inspired by birds and bats, the wing with flexibility and articulation is modeled as a distributed parameter system described by hybrid partial differential equations and ordin...

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Published inIEEE transactions on control systems technology Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 351 - 357
Main Authors He, Wei, Zhang, Shuang
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.01.2017
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Aerospace control
Aircraft
Boundary conditions
Boundary control
Control design
distributed parameter system
Distributed parameter systems
Dynamic stability
Flexible wings
Hybrid systems
Liapunov functions
Mathematical model
microaerial vehicle (MAV)
Nonlinear control
Ordinary differential equations
Partial differential equations
robot
Robots
vibration control
Wings (aircraft)
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Summary:In this brief, the control problem for flexible wings of a robotic aircraft is addressed by using boundary control schemes. Inspired by birds and bats, the wing with flexibility and articulation is modeled as a distributed parameter system described by hybrid partial differential equations and ordinary differential equations. Boundary control for both wing twist and bending is proposed on the original coupled dynamics, and bounded stability is proved by introducing a proper Lyapunov function. The effectiveness of the proposed control is verified by simulations.
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ISSN:1063-6536
1558-0865
DOI:10.1109/TCST.2016.2536708