Continuous Robust Control for Two-Dimensional Airfoils with Leading- and Trailing-Edge Flaps
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چکیده
In this paper, a class of multi-input/multi-output aeroelastic systems with unstructured nonlinear uncertainty is considered. By using leadingand trailing-edge control surface actuations, a continuous robust controller is proposed to suppress the aeroelastic vibrations of a nonlinearwing-sectionmodelwith plunging andpitching degrees of freedom. Under amild restriction that the system uncertainties are second-order differentiable, the control design yields a semiglobal asymptotic stability result, leading to rapid suppression of the plunging and pitching motions. Numerical simulation results demonstrate the performance of the multi-input/multi-output continuous robust control toward suppressing aeroelastic vibration and limit cycle oscillations at preand postflutter flight-speed regimes, even in the presence of bounded unknown external disturbance.
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