Print Email Facebook Twitter Evaluation of a non-linear control law for control loading devices Title Evaluation of a non-linear control law for control loading devices Author Van Baelen, D. Contributor Van Paassen, M.M. (mentor) Chu, Q.P. (mentor) Mulder, M. (mentor) Faculty Aerospace Engineering Department Control & Operation Programme Control & Simulation Date 2016-02-24 Abstract Simulator control loading systems are used to replicate the forces felt on the control devices. In the actual vehicle, the control system is a passive system whereas the simulator requires an actuator. The actuator imposes the forces on the control device which results in an active system. As this actuator has an inherent time delay, the energy requested by the model and the energy currently in the device might not match, possibly resulting in instabilities. This article reports on a new non-linear control law, which compensates the measured force on the device for the inherent time delay using an energy balance between the simulated model and the actual device. The analysis shows that the compensated system has slightly worse performance while the stability region is increased. As stability is considered the most important requirement, the compensated system is considered an improvement and recommended for further usage. Subject control loading devicecontrol loading systemclsnon-linearcontrol lawenergy-based To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e0df2ee8-99ed-4117-8a47-ec264b9f2be3 Embargo date 2018-02-24 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2016 Van Baelen, D. Files PDF final_thesis_dvb.pdf 14.87 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e0df2ee8-99ed-4117-8a47-ec264b9f2be3/datastream/OBJ/view