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Full-Text Articles in Aerospace Engineering
Phugoid Damping Control, Nicolas J. Schindeler
Phugoid Damping Control, Nicolas J. Schindeler
Theses and Dissertations
A novel phugoid damping control design methodology is developed, based on the use of wind axes and a point-mass aircraft model. The state variables are air speed, flight path angle, and heading angle, the control variables are thrust setting, angle of attack, bank angle, and sideslip angle, and the command signals are airspeed, flight path angle, and heading angle or heading rate. All the variables and parameters are nondimensionalized. A multivariable set point controller is developed which consists of: (1) a trim calculation-based nonlinear feed-forward control computer; thus, given a commanded new trim state (air speed, flight path angle, and …
Development And Testing Of A Multiple Filter Approach For Precise Dgps Positioning And Carrier-Phase Ambiguity Resolution, Paul E. Henderson
Development And Testing Of A Multiple Filter Approach For Precise Dgps Positioning And Carrier-Phase Ambiguity Resolution, Paul E. Henderson
Theses and Dissertations
The most precise relative positioning obtained using differential GPS depends on accurately determining carrier-phase integer ambiguities. To achieve high precision, many current static and kinematic algorithms use a floating-point solution until enough information becomes available to fix the carrier-phase ambiguities accurately. A mew method is presented that uses a multiple model Kalman filter to resolve the carrier-phase integer ambiguities. This method starts with the floating-point results, yet smoothly and rapidly attains the precision of the correct fixed-integer solution, eliminating the need to decide when to switch from the floating to the fixed-integer solution. This method is based on a theoretically …
Three Dimensional Formation Flight Control, James K. Hall
Three Dimensional Formation Flight Control, James K. Hall
Theses and Dissertations
Automating the control of an aircraft flying in formation necessitates the extension of the theory of formation flight control to allow for three dimensional maneuvers. The formation was modeled as a two-aircraft, leader and wingspan, formation. Both aircraft has its own three dimensional, rotating and translating, Cartesian axes system, with special attention being given to the motion of the leader in relation to the wingspan. The controller operated using the equations of motion expressed in the rotating reference frame of the wing aircraft. The control system has seven states, three inputs and three disturbance signals to model the dynamics of …