Abstract
In small-sized aircraft landing gear systems, magnetorheological (MR) dampers offer an innovative approach to adjusting damping levels under wide range of operating situations in order to achieve competing control objectives such as ride comfort, suspension travel, and energy consumption. Also, MR dampers have nonlinear dynamics and exhibit hysteresis. In this context, this paper aims to present a Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) technique for the implementation of backstepping control and linear quadratic regulator (LQR) control. Experimental results highlight that, compared to passive suspension (Passive Off), backstepping control and LQR control approaches reduce the fuselage vertical acceleration by 29.13% and 24.95%, respectively. Moreover, the ISO 2631 standard was adopted to evaluate ride comfort. LQR control can able to minimize the fuselage roll acceleration under a random road profile. Also, LQR control provides the highest performance in terms of fuselage roll acceleration, achieving a 6.2% improvement with lower energy consumption. By utilizing HIL, semi-active control methods can be tested and developed without the need for the aircraft, while keeping the characteristics that the physical aircraft would bring.
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