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Flight Path Control for a Multi-body HALE Aircraft

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At TU Berlin’s department of Flight Mechanic, Flight Control and Aeroelasticity the concept of a Multi-Body High Altitude Long Endurance aircraft is investigated for surveillance and communication tasks. This aircraft consists of several individual aircraft that are coupled in the mission altitude to a formation with a high aspect ratio. In a first phase, the aircraft was designed for a continuous one year mission in 20 Km height and a model to present the dynamics of the formation was set up. This paper describes the flight path control laws for a Multi-Body Aircraft. Frequency domain techniques are used for the inner-loop design, while the outer-loops are designed with classical flight control concepts. The controller is validated in a nonlinear flight simulation environment.

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Notes

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    Euler angles is the common denotation in flight mechanics. In multi-body dynamics the orientation angles are called Cardan angles.

  2. 2.

    In flight mechanics often called geodetic reference frame that is considered as an inertial system.

  3. 3.

    The MBA belongs to CS-23 aircraft, but the flight envelope in terms of gust ends at 15,240 m (CS 23.333, [3]). Since the CS-25 considers altitudes up to 18,288 m (CS 25.341, [4]), this specification is applied.

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  1. Technische Universität Berlin, Marchstraße 12, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Alexander Köthe & Robert Luckner

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  1. Avionics and Control Systems Department, Rzeszów University of Technology, Rzeszów, Poland

    Bogusław Dołęga

  2. The Institute of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Robert Głębocki

  3. Avionics and Control Systems Department, Rzeszów University of Technology, Rzeszów, Poland

    Damian Kordos

  4. The Institute of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Marcin Żugaj

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Köthe, A., Luckner, R. (2018). Flight Path Control for a Multi-body HALE Aircraft. In: Dołęga, B., Głębocki, R., Kordos, D., Żugaj, M. (eds) Advances in Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65283-2_23

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