Reconfigurable Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion for Attitude Control of a Structurally Damaged Aircraft

Structural damage induces extensive parameter changes of an aircraft, which leads to the mismatch problem between the offline model and a flying aircraft. Due to extensive parameter changes, motion of a damaged aircraft is difficultly described with a mathematical model. This article uses disturbances in accelerations and angular accelerations to quantify the effects of extensive parameter changes, and derives a mathematical model for a damaged aircraft. Provided that the flight controller of a damaged aircraft has a fixed structure, the mismatch problem may cause the aircraft unstable. Based on the proposed mathematical model, this article proposed a reconfigurable nonlinear dynamic inversion (RNDI) controller for attitude control of a structurally damaged aircraft, which synthesizes a nonlinear disturbance observer (NDO) with a modified nonlinear dynamic inversion (NDI) controller. The NDO is explored to estimate the disturbances in angular accelerations. Afterwards, the estimations are fed into the modified NDI controller realizes control structure reconfiguration. Conventional NDI control law and model reference adaptive control (MRAC) law are compared, and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed RNDI control law is robust to structural damage and possesses satisfactory control performance.

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