Nonlinear Attitude Control ofa Generic Aircraft

Sammanfattning: Determining suitable controllers for the process of evaluating dynamic per-formance of multiple versions of an aircraft’s aerodynamical, geometric and propulsive properties in its conceptual stage is an expensive task.In this report a proposition is made to utilize a generalized feedback lin-earizing controller that o˙ers the aircraft designer valuable insight into the manoeuvre performance of their aircraft. This is carried out by first estab-lishing fundamental requirements for a controller capable of treating a generic airframe, and formulating the resulting control laws.It is shown in this report, that with a suÿciently simple aerodynamic and propulsive model explicit feedback linearization is possible with satisfactory performance and robustness. Whereas it would be necessary to implement INDI if explicit inverse mappings are not obtainable. Which in turn would introduce additional tuning parameters.Robustness verification is performed in two stages, firstly by introducing a high model uncertainty within the flight control system and showing, via simulation, that the control system successfully performs desired multi-axial manoeuvres whilst managing to maintain the induced side slip below 0.1◦. Secondly by disturbing the aircraft with a discrete side slip. Critical side slip disturbance angle was found to be considerably larger than that for regular aircraft entailing that the used case study may be somewhat over dimensioned with respect to yaw control authority.