Incremental Nonlinear Control for Aeroelastic Wing Load Alleviation and Flutter Suppression

Conference paper (2022)

Authors

R.R.M. Schildkamp Aerospace Structures & Computational Mechanics - Aerospace Engineering
J. Chang Aerospace Structures & Computational Mechanics - Aerospace Engineering
J. Sodja Aerospace Structures & Computational Mechanics - Aerospace Engineering
R. De Breuker Aerospace Structures & Computational Mechanics - Aerospace Engineering
Xuerui Wang Aerospace Structures & Computational Mechanics - Aerospace Engineering
Research Group
Aerospace Structures & Computational Mechanics (Aerospace Engineering) (TU Delft)
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Published Date

2022

Language

English

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Faculty

Aerospace Engineering

Department

Aerospace Structures & Materials

Research Group

Aerospace Structures & Computational Mechanics

Abstract

This paper proposes an incremental nonlinear control method for aeroelastic sys- tem gust load alleviation and active flutter suppression. These two control objectives can be achieved without modifying the control architecture or the control parameters. The proposed method has guaranteed stability in the Lyapunov sense and also has robustness against external disturbances and model mismatches. The effectiveness of this control method is validated by wind tunnel tests of an active aeroelastic parametric wing apparatus, which is a typical wing section containing heave, pitch, flap, and spoiler degrees of freedom. Wind tunnel experiment results show that the proposed nonlinear incremental control can reduce the maximum gust loads by up to 46.7% and the root mean square of gust loads by up to 72.9%, while expanding the flutter margin by up to 15.9%.

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