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An investigation of a high-speed ground manoeuvre under optimal control

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posted on 2018-12-12, 09:23 authored by Zexin Huang, Matt BestMatt Best, James KnowlesJames Knowles
This paper studies the behaviour of a nonlinear aircraft model under optimal control for aircraft ground manoeuvres, specifically for high-speed runway exits. The aircraft’s behavior on the ground is captured by a fully parameterized 6-DOF nonlinear model. A pre-defined cost function is minimized using a Generalized Optimal Control (GOC) algorithm, in order to obtain an optimal control sequence for a particular manoeuvre-cost function combination. In this paper, three scenarios are investigated for a 45-degree high-speed runway exit: the first control sequence minimizes the distance between the aircraft’s CG and the runway centreline; the second maximizes the distance travelled by the aircraft during the 20 seconds of simulation time; the third minimizes tire wear. For each scenario, the GOC algorithm provides the best possible control inputs: such results provide a benchmark against which the effectiveness of future real-time controllers may be judged.

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School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Published in

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering

Volume

233

Issue

12

Pages

4363 - 4379

Citation

HUANG, Z., BEST, M.C. and KNOWLES, J.A.C., 2019. An investigation of a high-speed ground manoeuvre under optimal control. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 233 (12), pp.4363-4379.

Publisher

SAGE Publications © IMechE

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2018-12-05

Publication date

2019-01-08

Notes

This paper was published in the journal Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0954410018821793.

ISSN

0954-4100

eISSN

2041-3025

Language

  • en

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