Performance improvement of aircraft pitch angle control using a new reduced order fractionalized PID controller

• Published in: Asian journal of control Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 2588 - 2603
• Main Authors: Idir, A., Bensafia, Y., Khettab, K., Canale, L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.07.2023; Asian Control Association (ACA) and Chinese Automatic Control Society (CACS)
• Subjects: Aircraft; Aircraft control; Aircraft performance; Algorithms; Approximation; Computer Science; Controllers; Dynamical Systems; Electric power; Electronics; Engineering Sciences; fractionalized PID; Heuristic methods; HHO algorithm; Mathematical analysis; Mathematics; Optimization; Optimization algorithms; PID control; Pitch (inclination); pitch angle control; Proportional integral derivative; reduced order approximation; Rejection; Statistical tests; Systems and Control; Trigonometric functions; reduced order approximation; PID control; HHO algorithm; fractionalized PID; pitch angle control
• ISSN: 1561-8625; 1934-6093
• DOI: 10.1002/asjc.3009

In this paper, a new optimal reduced order fractionalized PID (ROFPID) controller based on the Harris Hawks Optimization Algorithm (HHOA) is proposed for aircraft pitch angle control. Statistical tests, analysis of the index of performance, and disturbance rejection, as well as transient and frequency responses, were all used to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The performance of the proposed HHOA‐ROFPID and HHOA‐ROFPID controllers with Oustaloup and Matsuda approximations was then compared not only to the PID controller tuned by the original HHO algorithm but also to other controllers tuned by cutting‐edge meta‐heuristic algorithms such as the atom search optimization algorithm (ASOA), Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA), sine‐cosine algorithm (SCA), and Grey wolf optimization algorithm (GOA). Simulation results show that the proposed controller with the Matsuda approximation provides better and more robust performance compared to the proposed controller with the Oustaloup approximation and other existing controllers in terms of percentage overshoot, settling time, rise time, and disturbance rejection.