NLDI guidance control laws for close formation flight

This paper presents identification, control synthesis and simulation results for an YF-22 aircraft model designed, built, and instrumented at West Virginia University. The goal of the project was the experimental demonstration of formation flight for a set of 3 of the above models. In the planned fl...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Campa, G., Seanor, B., Yu Gu, Napolitano, M.R.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Aerospace control
Aerospace electronics
Aerospace simulation
Aerospace testing
Aircraft
Instruments
Mechanical variables measurement
Pressure measurement
Q measurement
Velocity measurement
Online Access:Request full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This paper presents identification, control synthesis and simulation results for an YF-22 aircraft model designed, built, and instrumented at West Virginia University. The goal of the project was the experimental demonstration of formation flight for a set of 3 of the above models. In the planned flight configuration, a pilot on the ground maintained controls of the leader aircraft while a follower aircraft was required to maintain a pre-defined position and orientation with respect to the leader. In this paper, the identification of both a linear model and a nonlinear model of the aircraft from (light data is shown first. Then, the control laws, that feature a linear inner loop controller and a NLDI (nonlinear dynamic inversion) based outer loop guidance controller, are discussed in detail. Finally, both simulation and flight test results are presented.
ISSN:0743-1619
2378-5861
DOI:10.1109/ACC.2005.1470426