Project Details
Projekt
Distributed energy-efficient flight control — control allocation methods (A04)
Subject Area
Automation, Mechatronics, Control Systems, Intelligent Technical Systems, Robotics
Term
since 2023
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 498601949
The project contributes advanced control allocation methodologies to the SynTrac, by which new degrees of freedom offered by distributed propulsion and thrust vectoring can be fully exploited. The mapping from actuation to force and torque will become multivariable, and uncertain. It is exactly that mapping that has to be inverted for any flight control system. Considering certification, any inversion algorithm must be real-time applicable, it must not be conservative, and most important, computational bounds must be guaranteed. Furthermore, it must be possible to consider actuator failures. All of these certification-driven constraints make the overall inversion problem difficult. The objective of this project is to exploit the controllability potential of new distributed and/or integrated propulsion configurations of SynTrac. The solution will be approached in two ways, model-based and data-driven.
DFG Programme
CRC/Transregios
Applicant Institution
Technische Universität Braunschweig
