Abstract
This paper applies novel LPV (linear parameter-varying) model and MPC (model predictive control) methods to a tilt-transition process with rotor failure for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft of six distributed electric rotors with a fixed-wing for level flight, where two rotors are tiltable to generate variable thrust vector during the tilt-transition from hovering to steady-state level flight and the rest of four cannot be tilted. During the level flight, the aerodynamic lift induced by fixed wing maintains flight altitude. Based on a predefined nominal tilting trajectory scheduled by tilt-rotor angular position and the failed rotor speed, a discrete-time LPV model is constructed based on significantly reduced number of linear time invariant models obtained by linearizing the nonlinear eVTOL aircraft model along the tilting trajectory, where tilt-rotor angle and failed rotor speed can be measured in real-time. An LPV modeling error evaluation method is proposed based on the σ shifted ℌ2 norm, and adaptive model predictive controller is designed with the dynamic reference compensation. Simulation study indicated the success of the adaptive MPC strategy based on tilt-transition LPV model with rotor failure.
Original language | British English |
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Pages (from-to) | 339-349 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2023 |
Keywords
- Adaptive MPC
- electric virtical take-off and landing (eVTOL)
- linear parameter-varying (LPV)
- tilt-transition control
- tilt-transition failure control