Robust flight control design with handling qualities constraints using scheduled linear dynamic inversion and loop-shaping

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 483-494

  Siwakosit, Wichai ^a   Snell, S A ^a   Hess, Ronald A ^a,b  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATE FEEDBACK; SYSTEM STABILITY; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; AIRCRAFT HANDLING QUALITIES; DYNAMIC INVERSION TECHNIQUE; FLIGHT CONTROL; GAIN SCHEDULING;

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0033721908     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/87.845879     Document Type: Article

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