Optimization based clearance of flight control laws
Subtitle: a civil aircraft application
By: Andreas Varga, Anders Hansson, and Guilhem Puyou, (eds.).
Series: Lecture notes in control and information sciences -- 416; Lecture notes in control and information sciences -- 416
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9783642226267; 9783642226274
Subjects: Control systems; Flight control; Evaluation; Mathematics; Mathematical models; Mathematical optimization; Airplanes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Clearance benchmark for a civil aircraft; title: Generation of LPV models and LFRs for a nonlinear aircraft model; title: Generation of LFRs for a flexible aircraft model; title: Generation of LFRs for a nonlinear controller and closed-loop aircraft models; title: Identification of LPV state-space models using H2-minimisation; title: Enhanced [mu]-analysis techniques for clearance; title: Worst-case parameter search based clearance using parallel nonlinear programming methods; title: Lyapunov-based robustness analysis techniques for clearance; title: IQC-based analysis techniques for clearance; title: Nonlinear programming methods for worst-case pilot input determination; title: Application of [mu]-analysis techniques to clearance; title: Application of parallel nonlinear programming methods for worst-case parameter search; title: Applications of Lyapunov-based analysis techniques for clearance; title: Applications of IQC-based analysis techniques for clearance - Application of nonlinear programming methods for determination of worst-case pilot inputs; title: Evaluation of clearance techniques in an industrial context; title: Concluding remarks and industrial perspective; title: Assessment of aircraft flight controllers using nonlinear robustness analysis techniques; title: Validation and verification (V&V) of safety-critical systems operating under off-nominal conditions; title: Clearance of flight control laws for carefree handling of advanced fighter aircraft.