Control Design for a Helicopter Lab Process

Abstract A two-week control design project in a graduate course is described. The issue is to design a controller for a multivariable helicopter lab process. The dcsciibed project illustrates the whole procedure from modeling and identification to implementation and validation of a control system. The suggested control structure consists of a gain scheduler together with two SISO-controllers and a feedforward. The closed-loop systerr is shown to respond well to step reference signals.