Print Email Facebook Twitter Direct Force Control for the ICE aircraft Title Direct Force Control for the ICE aircraft: A novel control strategy Author Douwes, Daniël (TU Delft Aerospace Engineering) Contributor de Visser, C.C. (mentor) Chu, Q. P. (graduation committee) Hulshoff, S.J. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Aerospace Engineering | Control & Simulation Date 2019-09-06 Abstract This thesis presents a new control philosophy based on Direct Force Control (DFC) for over-actuated aircraft. It is predicated on simultaneously controlling all six Degrees of Freedom (DoF). The Innovative Control Effectors (ICE) aircraft with its thirteen-part control effector suite is the subject of study. Active-Set (A-S) based Incremental Nonlinear Control Allocation (INCA) studied in previous work is extended and adapted to suit 6DoF incremental control commands. Translational inner loops were designed and connected to various outer loops. DFC provided substantial increases in tracking performance for air-to-air refueling for steady straight and steady turns with varying degrees of turbulence. A hybrid DFC strategy for vertical control paired with lateral control through roll showed stability and controllability improvements for high crosswind landings. Subject ICEDirect Force ControlNonlinear controlIncremental ControlAerial Refueling To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0ff76489-2882-42e5-9114-a66aecdfe59c Embargo date 2022-08-06 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2019 Daniël Douwes Files PDF Daniel_Douwes_Direct_Forc ... rcraft.pdf 2.95 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0ff76489-2882-42e5-9114-a66aecdfe59c/datastream/OBJ/view