Colloquium: Beatriz Pedroso Duarte(C&O)

As the aviation industry faces growing environmental and societal pressures, novel concepts such as the Flying-V emerge. Nevertheless, its unconventional configuration poses unique challenges in terms of stability and control, highlighting the pressing need for advanced control systems development. Hence, the current study aims to increase the maturity of the flight control system of the Flying-V concept by implementing a C∗ longitudinal controller, while guaranteeing robustness stability and performance against uncertainty, adequate performance in the presence of disturbances and measurement noise, and compliance with Level 1 handling qualities. The Flying-V model is implemented in MATLAB/Simulink® which served as the foundation for the controllers synthesis. Three designs are developed, which include a continuous time, a modified continuous time, and a modified continuous time multi-modeling controllers. These are conducted within the signal-based H∞ mixed sensitivity framework and analyized in terms of stability assessments, linear and nonlinear time domain simulations, and uncertainty sensitivity.

Supervisors: Dr. Eng. Spilios Theodoulis