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http://dx.doi.org/10.12985/ksaa.2015.23.2.063

Design of Envelope Protection Algorithm for Helicopters  

Ko, Joon Soo (한국항공대학교 항공우주 및 기계공학부)
Park, Sungsu (세종대학교 항공우주공학과)
Kim, Kyungmok (한국항공대학교 항공우주 및 기계공학부)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics / v.23, no.2, 2015 , pp. 63-68 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents the algorithm for envelope protection of helicopters. The algorithm consists of two feedback control loops: inner loop and outer loop. As an inner loop control, model following control is designed to meet the ADS-33 handling qualities specification by minimizing the tracking errors between the responses of the actual model and those of the command filter. In order to implement envelope protection, saturation limiter is imposed to command channels in command filter, whose limits are computed corresponding to the envelope limit. Fast model predictive control is designed as an outer loop control to deal with saturation constraints generated by the inner loop envelope protection and also imposed by outer loop envelope protection variables. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm yields good envelope protection performance.
Keywords
Envelope Protection; Model Following Control; Model Predictive Control; Command Filter;
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