Switched Control of Fixed-Wing Aircraft for Continuous Airdrop of Heavy Payloads

No AccessEngineering NotesSwitched Control of Fixed-Wing Aircraft for Continuous Airdrop of Heavy PayloadsLixian Zhang, Ye Liang, Yunpeng Li, Shengao Lu and Jianan YangLixian ZhangHarbin Institute of Technology, 150001 Harbin, People’s Republic of China*Professor, School of Astronautics; (Corresponding Author).Search for more papers by this author, Ye Liang https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8215-5281Harbin Institute of Technology, 150001 Harbin, People’s Republic of China†Ph.D. Candidate, School of Astronautics; (Co-Corresponding Author).Search for more papers by this author, Yunpeng LiHarbin Institute of Technology, 150001 Harbin, People’s Republic of China‡Ph.D. Candidate, School of Astronautics; .Search for more papers by this author, Shengao LuHarbin Institute of Technology, 150001 Harbin, People’s Republic of China§Ph.D. Candidate, School of Astronautics; .Search for more papers by this author and Jianan YangHarbin Institute of Technology, 150001 Harbin, People’s Republic of China¶Ph.D. Candidate, School of Astronautics; .Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:5 Jun 2023https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G007398SectionsRead Now ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail About References [1] Panagiotou P., Mitridis D., Dimopoulos T., Kapsalis S., Dimitriou S. and Yakinthos K., “Aerodynamic Design of a Tactical Blended-Wing-Body UAV for the Aerial Delivery of Cargo and Lifesaving Supplies,” AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum, AIAA Paper 2020-1958, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2020-1958 LinkGoogle Scholar[2] Yang S. and Jeon S., “Recursive Path Planning and Wind Field Estimation for Precision Airdrop,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 42, No. 6, 2019, pp. 1429–1437. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G003944 LinkGoogle Scholar[3] Wei W., He X., Wang X. and Wang M., “Research on Swarm Munitions Cooperative Warfare,” International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems, Springer, Berlin, 2021, pp. 717–727. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9492-9_71 Google Scholar[4] Zheng W. and Wang H., “Modeling and Adaptive Attitude Control of Aircraft with Varying Mass in Aerial Refueling,” Advances in Guidance, Navigation and Control, Springer, Berlin, 2022, pp. 1907–1918. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8155-7_160 Google Scholar[5] Zhang J., Xu H., Zhang D. and Liu D., “Safety Modeling and Simulation of Multi-Factor Coupling Heavy-Equipment Airdrop,” Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, Vol. 27, No. 5, 2014, pp. 1062–1069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cja.2014.08.014 CrossrefGoogle Scholar[6] Liu R., Sun X. and Wang D., “Heavyweight Airdrop Flight Control Design Using Feedback Linearization and Adaptive Sliding Mode,” Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Vol. 38, No. 10, 2016, pp. 1155–1164. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142331215627003 CrossrefGoogle Scholar[7] Liang Y., Yang J., Zhang L., Baldi S. and De Schutter B., “Switched Control Design for Quadrotor in Target Tracking with Complex Intermittent Measurements,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023, pp. 206–214. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G006599 LinkGoogle Scholar[8] Wang X. and Zhao J., “Autonomous Switched Control of Load Shifting Robot Manipulators,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 64, No. 9, 2017, pp. 7161–7170. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2017.2688958 Google Scholar[9] Chen H.-Y., Bell Z., Licitra R. and Dixon W., “A Switched Systems Approach to Vision-Based Tracking Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots,” 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE, New York, 2017, pp. 4902–4907. https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2017.8264384 Google Scholar[10] Ishii H. and Francis B., “Stabilizing a Linear System by Switching Control with Dwell Time,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 47, No. 12, 2002, pp. 1962–1973. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2002.805689 CrossrefGoogle Scholar[11] Castañeda H., Salas-Peña O. 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All requests for copying and permission to reprint should be submitted to CCC at www.copyright.com; employ the eISSN 1533-3884 to initiate your request. See also AIAA Rights and Permissions www.aiaa.org/randp. TopicsAircraft ControlAircraft Flight Control SystemAircraft Operations and TechnologyAircraft Stability and ControlAircraftsFixed-Wing AircraftUnmanned Aerial Vehicle KeywordsFixed Wing AircraftAircraft Flight Control SystemUnmanned Aerial VehicleHeavy Payload AirdropMultiple Equilibria Switched SystemsSwitched ControlAcknowledgmentsThis work was supported in part by Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62225305, Grant 12072088, Grant 62003117, and Grant 62003118; in part by the Grant JCKY2020603B010; in part by Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province, China, under Grant ZD2020F001; and in part by China Scholarship Council under Grant 202206120240.PDF Received24 November 2022Accepted26 April 2023Published online5 June 2023