In this paper the hybrid supervisory control architecture developed in (Famularo et al., 2011) for constrained control systems is adopted with the aim to improve safety in aircraft operations when critical events like command saturations or unpredicted anomalies occur. The capabilities of a low-computational demanding predictive scheme for the supervision of non-linear dynamical systems subject to sudden switchings amongst operating conditions and time-varying constraints are exploited in the flight control systems framework. The strategy is based on Command Governor ideas and is tailored to jointly take into account time-varying set-points/constraints. Unpredictable anomalies in the nominal plant behaviour, whose models fall in the category of time-varying constraints, can also be tolerated by the control scheme. In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach, simulations both on a High Altitude Performance Demonstrator unmanned aircraft with redundant control surfaces and the P92 general aviation aircraft are discussed.

A SAFE SUPERVISORY FLIGHT CONTROL SCHEME IN THE PRESENCE OF CONSTRAINTS AND ANOMALIES

SCORDAMAGLIA, Valerio
2015-01-01

Abstract

In this paper the hybrid supervisory control architecture developed in (Famularo et al., 2011) for constrained control systems is adopted with the aim to improve safety in aircraft operations when critical events like command saturations or unpredicted anomalies occur. The capabilities of a low-computational demanding predictive scheme for the supervision of non-linear dynamical systems subject to sudden switchings amongst operating conditions and time-varying constraints are exploited in the flight control systems framework. The strategy is based on Command Governor ideas and is tailored to jointly take into account time-varying set-points/constraints. Unpredictable anomalies in the nominal plant behaviour, whose models fall in the category of time-varying constraints, can also be tolerated by the control scheme. In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach, simulations both on a High Altitude Performance Demonstrator unmanned aircraft with redundant control surfaces and the P92 general aviation aircraft are discussed.
2015
command governor, flight control, fault tolerant control
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