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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2022, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (10): 527384-527384.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2022.27384

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Aircraft anti-skid braking control technology: A review

JIAO Zongxia1,2,4, BAI Ning1,2, LIU Xiaochao2,4, LI Juefei1,2, WANG Zhuangzhuang1,2, SUN Dong2,5, QI Pengyuan2,3, SHANG Yaoxing1,2,4   

  1. 1. School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China;
    2. Science and Technology on Aircraft Control Laboratory, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China;
    3. Research Institute for Frontier Science, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China;
    4. Ningbo Institute of Technology, Beihang University, Ningbo 315800, China;
    5. Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Beijing 100190, China
  • Received:2022-05-06 Revised:2022-05-25 Published:2022-07-08

Abstract: As the most crucial landing and deceleration mechanism of an airplane, aircraft braking system is closely associated to the take-off and landing security of the vehicle. Due to its nature of uncertainty, strong nonlinearity and apparent time-variance, several challenging problems in the field of control are involved in the braking process. Disturbance with complicated nonlinear characteristics, such as ground friction, torque fluctuation of brake disc, load shift in undercarriage, and gust, must be effectively overcome so that the ground cohesion force can be utilized with maneuverability, thus ensuring the safe aboveground operation of airplanes. In this paper, we provide a thorough review over the technologies in the control of aircraft braking. First of all, we briefly introduce the function, development, basic control principle and typical structure of a wheel braking system. Moreover, we summarize the critical indicators for the evaluation of braking performance based on application requirements. In addition, mathematical models are set up to elaborate on the representative components of the braking system as well as some external disturbance. According to the sequence of how anti-skid braking technologies develop, we also discuss some typical control methods in "off-on" anti-skid control, "modulated" anti-skid control, adaptive anti-skid control and intelligent anti-skid control. Then, we illustrate full-digital simulation and other testing methods that aims at verifying the feasibility of anti-skid control strategies. Finally, given the challenges faced by the development of anti-skid braking system, we raise some prospects of the research highlights in this field.

Key words: aircraft braking, anti-skid, road identification, tire friction, nonlinear disturbance

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