Abstract

Personal air transportation utilizing small aircraft is a market that is expected to grow significantly in the future. For this segment, “stick and rudder” related accidents should be mitigated to guide this process in a safe manner. Instead of downscaling advanced and expensive fly-by-wire platforms that incorporate flight envelope protection found in commercial aircraft, a low cost solution should be considered. This paper focuses on a flight envelope protection system for small aircraft, to allow carefree maneuvering for the less experienced pilot. Preliminary results are obtained from an empirical comparison study in the time domain, between a PID based control limiting approach, a command limiting approach and a constrained Flight Control Law (FCL) approach using Model-based Predictive Control (MPC), with and without parametric model uncertainties. Investigation of the results reveals that, for this study, command limiting and MPC should be preferred over control limiting and that the practicality of command limiting outweighs the small performance increase of MPC.


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https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2064463460
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Published on 01/01/2010

Volume 2010, 2010
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-7701
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA license

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