A parametric model for control integrated design of hypersonic vehicles

Aiming to the complex operation condition and strong coupling dynamic characteristics of hypersonic vehicles, this paper develops a parametric model which is suitable to the control integrated design. First, the necessities and research status of the control integrated design of hypersonic vehicles are discussed. Then, the typical hypersonic waverider shape is geometrically parametrized using the quadratic curve and class/shape function methods. After that, the forces and moments of the hypersonic vehicle are estimated based on the surface element method in combination with the engineering estimation formulas, and the nonlinear dynamic parametrization model is built. Furthermore, the analytical expressions of forces and moments are obtained by means of the sensitive analysis strategies as a result that the complicated nonlinear dynamics model is changed to the iterative design model. Finally, an illustrative example is provided to verify the feasibility of this proposed method, and the according results show that the developed parametrization model enables to meet the requirements of the control integrated design.