Implementation Challenges for Multivariable Control: What You Did Not Learn in School (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781289147082)

Multivariable control allows controller designs that can provide decoupled command tracking and robust performance in the presence of modeling uncertainties. Although the last two decades have seen extensive development of multivariable control theory and example applications to complex systems in software/hardware simulations, there are no production flying systems aircraft or spacecraft, that use multivariable control. This is because of the tremendous challenges associated with implementation of such multivariable control designs. Unfortunately, the curriculum in schools does not provide sufficient time to be able to provide an exposure to the students in such implementation challenges. The objective of this paper is to share the lessons learned by a practitioner of multivariable control in the process of applying some of the modern control theory to the Integrated Flight Propulsion Control (IFPC) design for an advanced Short Take-Off Vertical Landing (STOVL) aircraft simulation.

Author: Nasa Technical Reports Server (Ntrs),Sanjay Garg
ISBN-10: 1289147086
ISBN-13: 9781289147082
Publisher: Bibliogov
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2013
Pages: 30
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.16lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.06d