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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (12): 131092.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2024.31092

• Fluid Mechanics and Flight Mechanics • Previous Articles    

Improved DDPG-based multipoint pressure distribution control of variable geometry scramjet combustor at wide range velocities

Wenhui LING1, Chunhui MU1, Lingcong NIE1(), Xian DU2, Ximing SUN2   

  1. 1.National Key Laboratory of Ramjet,Beijing Power Machinery Institute,Beijing 100074,China
    2.School of Control Science and Engineering,Dalian University of Technology,Dalian 116024,China
  • Received:2024-08-23 Revised:2024-09-19 Accepted:2024-10-24 Online:2025-01-17 Published:2024-11-07
  • Contact: Lingcong NIE E-mail:nielingcong@163.com
  • Supported by:
    National Key Laboratory Project on Ramjet Engine Technology of China(WDZC6142703202402)

Abstract:

Generally, the variable geometry combustor can ensure suitable performance of scramjets. However, its multivariate and strong coupling characteristics make it difficult to develop high-performance control algorithms, and also become an intractable problem hindering the development of the scramjet field. To solve the contradiction between control design and mechanical coupling, this paper firstly proposes a multipoint fuel injection structure for the conventional variable geometry combustor. The newly proposed structure can provide more operable inputs, thereby ensuring a theoretical ability to improve the system performance. On the basis of the multipoint fuel injection structure, a new LSTM/DDPG-based control scheme is proposed to solve the problem of distributed pressure control in the case of supersonic combustion. This scheme can effectively improve the potential performance of the scramjet at wide range velocities and in long flight time. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is then verified with the simulation results, i.e., the LSTM/DDPG-based control scheme can significantly optimize the combustion performance of variable geometry combustor under different operating conditions. Finally, the applicability of the proposed scheme is validated on the Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) simulation platform, and the pressure distribution can be effectively controlled at different expansion ratios. The high-accuracy control of multipoint pressure distribution at wide range velocities for the variable geometry combustor is shown to be realized.

Key words: variable geometry combustor, supersonic combustion, hardware-in-the-loop, deep reinforcement learning, multipoint pressure distribution control

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