Integrated flight/thrust vectoring control for jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicles with ACHEON propulsion

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Cen, Zhaohui, Smith, Tim, Stewart, Paul and Stewart, Jill 2014. Integrated flight/thrust vectoring control for jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicles with ACHEON propulsion. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954410014544179
AuthorsCen, Zhaohui, Smith, Tim, Stewart, Paul and Stewart, Jill
Abstract

As a new alternative to tilting rotors or turbojet vector mechanical oriented nozzles, ACHEON (Aerial Coanda High Efficiency Orienting-jet Nozzle) has enormous advantages because it is free of moving elements and highly effective for Vertical/Short-Take-Off and Landing (V/STOL) aircraft. In this paper, an integrated flight/ thrust vectoring control scheme for a jet powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with an ACHEON nozzle is proposed to assess its suitability in jet aircraft flight applications. Firstly, a simplified Thrust-Vectoring (TV) population model is built based on CFD simulation data and parameter identification. Secondly, this TV propulsion model is embedded as a jet actuator for a benchmark fixed-wing ‘Aerosonde’ UAV, and then a four “cascaded-loop” controller, based on nonlinear dynamic inversion (NDI), is designed to individually control the angular rates (in the body frame), attitude angles (in the wind frame), track angles (in the navigation frame), and position (in the earth-centered frame) . Unlike previous research on fixed-wing UAV flight controls or TV controls, our proposed four-cascaded NDI control law can not only coordinate surface control and TV control as well as an optimization controller, but can also implement an absolute self-position control for the autopilot flight control. Finally, flight simulations in a high-fidelity aerodynamic environment are performed to demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed control scheme.

As a new alternative to tilting rotors or turbojet vector mechanical oriented nozzles, ACHEON (Aerial Coanda
High Efficiency Orienting-jet Nozzle) has enormous advantages because it is free of moving elements and highly
effective for Vertical/Short-Take-Off and Landing (V/STOL) aircraft. In this paper, an integrated flight/ thrust vectoring
control scheme for a jet powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with an ACHEON nozzle is proposed to assess its
suitability in jet aircraft flight applications. Firstly, a simplified Thrust-Vectoring (TV) population model is built based
on CFD simulation data and parameter identification. Secondly, this TV propulsion model is embedded as a jet actuator
for a benchmark fixed-wing ‘Aerosonde’ UAV, and then a four “cascaded-loop” controller, based on nonlinear dynamic
inversion (NDI), is designed to individually control the angular rates (in the body frame), attitude angles (in the wind
frame), track angles (in the navigation frame), and position (in the earth-centered frame) . Unlike previous research on
fixed-wing UAV flight controls or TV controls, our proposed four-cascaded NDI control law can not only coordinate
surface control and TV control as well as an optimization controller, but can also implement an absolute self-position
control for the autopilot flight control. Finally, flight simulations in a high-fidelity aerodynamic environment are
performed to demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed control scheme.

KeywordsThrust vectoring; UAV
Year2014
JournalProceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
ISSN0954-4100
2041-3025
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1177/0954410014544179
Web address (URL)http://hdl.handle.net/10545/609450
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