Abstract
High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) aircraft consist of extremely light-weight structures in combination with a high wingspan and high aspect ratio. The combination of these properties results in an unique dynamic behavior of the aircraft system featuring a strong interaction of structural and rigid body eigenmodes. These characteristics lead to specific demands on the robustness and fault tolerance of flight control algorithms of such aircraft. The control system must be able to navigate the aircraft safely along defined tracks even in case of fault scenarios. Due to the size of these aircraft they are usually over-actuated featuring multiple redundant control surfaces. This redundancy is used in this paper to design a fault tolerant control system ensuring optimal control performance during fault scenarios. The strategy is based on a fault detection and isolation (FDI) algorithm to detect malfunctioning control surfaces. This fault information is used to switch to alternate control laws in a multi-model control approach. The FDI filters are designed using the nullspace-based design paradigm, while the alternate controllers are synthesized applying structured H∞ control design techniques.
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