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Outside Loop Control In Asymmetrical Trimmed Flight Conditions, Gary D. Miller

Theses and Dissertations

Traditionally flight control systems have used linearized equations of motion solved around a single trim point. This thesis proposes a nested-loop controller directly solved from the equations of motion. The control equations were developed as a solution to asymmetrically trimmed flight conditions. A two-loop design was proposed for the controller. The outer loop modeled the aircraft as a point mass and all forces were balanced to find the aircraft states. The equations input the control variables and output the aircraft states. The inner-loop utilizes the six-degree of freedom model of the aircraft to solve the moment equations. With the input …