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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2018, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (8): 121900-121900.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2018.21900

• Fluid Mechanics and Flight Mechanics • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Mode conversion of electric tilt rotor aircraft based on corrected generalized corridor

LU Linhong1, FU Rong1, WANG Yong2, ZENG Jianping1   

  1. 1. School of Aerospace Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China;
    2. Research Institute of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2017-11-30 Revised:2018-04-02 Online:2018-08-15 Published:2018-04-02
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China (61673325,61374037)

Abstract: The control problem of mode conversion of electric tilt rotor aircraft is studied in this paper based on the corrected generalized corridor and online gain-scheduling method. Considering the drawbacks of the traditional trimming approach which omits the dynamic time-varying factors during the conversion process, a new two-step trimming strategy is proposed, that is, correcting the operating points first and then obtaining the corrected generalized corridor. As a result, the deviation between the trim condition and the real operating points of the system is reduced, and hence the performance of the gain-scheduling control is improved. Furthermore, as the workload of designing the conversion controller with the traditional gain-scheduling method is heavy, we develop an online gain-scheduling algorithm to avoid the fitting procedure. Simulation of a small electric tilt rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) shows that the tilt rotor UAV can complete the mode conversion flight fastly and steadily. It is also found that the average tracking error of the conversion corridor can be reduced significantly with the corrected generalized corridor.

Key words: tilt rotor aircraft, mode conversion, conversion corridor, generalized corridor, correction, online gain-scheduling

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