Gain Scheduled Control of Gas Turbine Engines: Stability and Verification

A stable gain scheduled controller for a gas turbine engine that drives a variable pitch propeller is developed and described. A stability proof is developed for gain scheduled closed-loop system using global linearization and linear matrix inequality (LMI) techniques. Using convex optimization tools, a single quadratic Lyapunov function is computed for multiple linearizations near equilibrium and nonequilibrium points of the nonlinear closed-loop system. This approach guarantees stability of the closed-loop gas turbine engine system. To verify the stability of the closed-loop system on-line, an optimization problem is proposed, which is solvable using convex optimization tools. Simulation results show that the developed gain scheduled controller is capable to regulate a turboshaft engine for large thrust commands in a stable fashion with proper tracking performance.

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