导航

Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (11): 332544.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2026.32544

• Electronics and Electrical Engineering and Control • Previous Articles    

Hybrid active-passive fault-tolerant control for carrier landing subject to control surface effectiveness loss

Dapeng ZHOU1(), Chong ZHEN1, Xiaolei QU1, Fei LUO2   

  1. 1.Flight Control Department,Shenyang Aircraft Design Research Institute,AVIC,Shenyang 110035,China
    2.School of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering,Dalian University of Technology,Dalian 116024,China
  • Received:2025-07-10 Revised:2025-10-16 Accepted:2026-02-04 Online:2026-03-05 Published:2026-02-27
  • Contact: Dapeng ZHOU E-mail:18624064969@buaa.edu.cn

Abstract:

During the carrier landing of carrier-based aircraft, strong disturbances such as complex harsh marine environment, deck motion, and ship stern flow significantly increase the probability of control surface faults, which may degrade landing control accuracy and even lead to instantaneous flight instability. This paper integrates the advantages of passive fault-tolerant control and active fault-tolerant control, and proposes an active-passive composite fault-tolerant flight control method based on direct lift control. Firstly, to address the abrupt change in the response characteristics of carrier-based aircraft at the initial stage of control surface faults, a passive fault-tolerant control method based on predefined-time global fast terminal sliding mode is designed to ensure the instantaneous flight stability of carrier-based aircraft within a prescribed time and improve the robustness of the control system. Then, to satisfy the high-precision control requirements in the terminal landing phase, an active adaptive reconfigurable control method based on online identification is designed to enhance the attitude and trajectory tracking control capability of faulty carrier-based aircraft. Finally, mathematical simulations and engineering application simulation tests are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method under elevator and flap damage faults. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method possesses stronger robustness and better control performance than the direct-lift Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) landing control method and the single passive or active fault-tolerant control under different degrees of control surface damage.

Key words: direct lift landing, active-passive composite fault-tolerant control, sliding mode control, adaptive control, control surface damage

CLC Number: