Flight Control Experiment of Multipurpose-Aviation-Laboratory-alpha In-Flight Simulator

摘要

This paper reports the results of experimental verification of flight controllers for the multipurpose-aviation-rnlaboratory-u0001 (MuPAL-u0001) in-flight simulator. The flight controller design requirements are twofold: to suppress therneffects of gusts on MuPAL-u0001 motions and to realize a wide range of maneuverability, i.e., handling characteristics,rnwithout controller redesign.Using a previously proposed two-step designmethod for two-degrees-of-freedommodel-rnmatching controllers, flight controllers were designed for the linearized longitudinal and lateral-directionalmotionsrnofMuPAL-u0001, and their performancewas examined by hardware-in-the-loop simulations and flight testswith severalrnmaneuverability models. These experiments confirmed that MuPAL-u0001 with our controllers achieves gustrnsuppression and is capable of simulating various types of handling characteristics simply by replacing themodel thatrndefines the characteristics to be examined.