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Parameter estimation of vertical takeoff and landing aircrafts by using a PID controlling particle swarm optimization algorithm

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As an indispensable constituent of the premises of highly precious control of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircrafts, parameter identification has received an increasingly considerable attention from academic community and practitioners. In an effort to tackle the matter better, we herewith put forward a PID controlling particle swarm optimizer (PSO) which we call the proportional integral derivative (PID) controller inspired particle swarm optimizer (P idSO). It uses a novel evolutionary strategy whereby a specified PID controller is used to improve particles’ local and global best positions information. Empirical experiments were conducted on both analytically unimodal and multimodal test functions. The experimental results demonstrate that PidSO features better search effectiveness and efficiency in solving most of the multimodal optimization problems when compared with other recent variants of PSOs, and its performance can be upgraded by adopting proper control law based controllers. Moreover, PidSO, together with least squares (LS) method and genetic algorithm (GA), is applied to the parameter estimation of the VTOL aircraft. In comparison with LS method and GA, PidSO is a more effective tool in estimating the parameters of the VTOL aircraft.

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This work is supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in China. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions of the reviewers, which have improved the presentation.

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  1. School of Software Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Yongzhong Lu

  2. College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Danping Yan

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, 2006, Australia

    David Levy

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Lu, Y., Yan, D. & Levy, D. Parameter estimation of vertical takeoff and landing aircrafts by using a PID controlling particle swarm optimization algorithm. Appl Intell 44, 793–815 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-015-0726-2

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