Robust Autopilot Design for Nonsquare Flight Systems

비정방 비행 시스템에 대한 강인한 자동조종장치 설계

A robust controller is proposed to design a flight autopilot for lateral motion control. The control system has two control loops in order to meet the performance and to maintain the stability-robustness for a nonsquare flight system with uncertain aerodynamic variations and disturbance. One is designed via linear quadratic Gaussian with loop transfer recovery(LQG/LTR) design methodology for the inner loop. The other is designed via proportional controller design method for the outer loop. To show the effectiveness of this control system, it is compared with the LQG/LTR control system for a square flight system and is analyzed for the performance/stability-robustness to model uncertainties and disturbance via wind gusts. It is found that the proposed control system has good heading command-following performance under allowable sideslip angle in spite of model uncertainties and disturbance.

본 논문에서는 비행체의 사이드슬립(sideslip)의 변화를 최소로 하면서 롤(roll) 및 요(yaw) 운동을 제어하는 것을 제어목표로 하여, 입출력 갯수가 같은 정방(square)시스템과 입출력 갯수가 다른 비정방(nonsquare)시스템에 대하여 LQG/LTR 및 비례 재어기를 각각 설계하여 그 성능을 비교분석한다.