<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> In this paper the hybrid supervisory control architecture developed by Famularo et al. (2011) for constrained control systems is adopted with the aim to improve safety in aircraft operations when critical events like command saturations or unpredicted anomalies occur. The capabilities of a low-computational demanding predictive scheme for the supervision of non-linear dynamical systems subject to sudden switchings amongst operating conditions and time-varying constraints are exploited in the flight control systems framework. The strategy is based on command governor ideas and is tailored to jointly take into account time-varying set-points/constraints. Unpredictable anomalies in the nominal plant behaviour, whose models fall in the category of time-varying constraints, can also be tolerated by the control scheme. In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach, simulations both on a high altitude performance demonstrator unmanned aircraft with redundant control surfaces and the P92 general aviation aircraft are discussed.</p></abstract>

In this paper the hybrid supervisory control architecture developed by Famularo et al. (2011) for constrained control systems is adopted with the aim to improve safety in aircraft operations when critical events like command saturations or unpredicted anomalies occur. The capabilities of a low-computational demanding predictive scheme for the supervision of non-linear dynamical systems subject to sudden switchings amongst operating conditions and time-varying constraints are exploited in the flight control systems framework. The strategy is based on command governor ideas and is tailored to jointly take into account time-varying set-points/constraints. Unpredictable anomalies in the nominal plant behaviour, whose models fall in the category of time-varying constraints, can also be tolerated by the control scheme. In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach, simulations both on a high altitude performance demonstrator unmanned aircraft with redundant control surfaces and the P92 general aviation aircraft are discussed.

A Safe Supervisory Flight Control Scheme in the Presence of Constraints and Anomalies

Dipartimento di Informatica, Modellistica, Elettronica e Sistemistica Universit`a della Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci, Cubo 42-C, Rende (CS), 87036, Italy

Ingegneria Industriale e dell’Informazione Seconda Universit`a degli Studi di Napoli, Real Casa dell’Annunziata Via Roma, 29, Aversa (CE), 81031, Italy

Dipartimento di Ingegneria, delle Infrastrutture e dell’Energia Sostenibile Universit`a degli Studi di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Via Graziella, loc. Feo di Vito, 89060, Italy

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

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In this paper the hybrid supervisory control architecture developed by Famularo et al. (2011) for constrained control systems is adopted with the aim to...

A Safe Supervisory Flight Control Scheme in the Presence of Constraints and Anomalies

Published Online: Mar 25, 2015

Page range: 39 - 51

Received: Jan 29, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/amcs-2015-0003

© by Giuseppe Franzè

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