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Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

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1998

Aeroelastic

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Approximate Analytical Relationships For Linear Optimal Aeroelastic Flight Control Laws, Ayman Hamdy Kassem Jul 1998

Approximate Analytical Relationships For Linear Optimal Aeroelastic Flight Control Laws, Ayman Hamdy Kassem

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation introduces new methods to uncover functional relationships between design parameters of a contemporary control design technique and the resulting closed-loop properties. Three new methods are developed for generating such relationships through analytical expressions: the Direct Eigen-Based Technique, the Order of Magnitude Technique, and the Cost Function Imbedding Technique. Efforts concentrated on the linear-quadratic state-feedback control-design technique applied to an aeroelastic flight control task. For this specific application, simple and accurate analytical expressions for the closed-loop eigenvalues and zeros in terms of basic parameters such as stability and control derivatives, structural vibration damping and natural frequency, and cost function …