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Fault Tolerant Control of Aircraft Actuating Surfaces using Generalized DI and Integral SM Control

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The paper introduces a new fault tolerant control structure against control surface failure, made by a combined use of Generalized Dynamic Inversion (GDI) control and Integral Sliding Mode control (ISMC). The null-control vector in the GDI-based control law parameterizes all the possible control functions that drive the aircraft trajectories to the sliding surface. A simple choice of the null-control vector is made, and is shown to yield closed-loop system stability for the nominal actuator scenario. The small gain theorem is employed to provide an explicit lower limit on the actuator efficiency matrix in the event of faults/failures. The efficacy of the proposed method in tolerating control surface actuator failure is demonstrated on the ADMIRE benchmark model.

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  1. Aeronautical Engineering Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Abdulrahman H. Bajodah

  2. University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

    Hamayun M. Tariq, Kumar Pakki. Bharani Chandra, Rihan Ahmed & Da-Wei Gu

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Bajodah, A.H., Tariq, H.M., Chandra, K.P.B. et al. Fault Tolerant Control of Aircraft Actuating Surfaces using Generalized DI and Integral SM Control. J Intell Robot Syst 69, 181–188 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-012-9755-9

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