Structured H-Infinity controller design and analysis for highly maneuverable jet aircraft

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2022-2-10
Özkan, Salih Volkan
Robust control technique is utilized to develop flight control laws for highly maneuverable aircraft. A structured H-Infinity controller is used to optimize the gains of the proposed control algorithm. For this purpose systune algorithm available in Matlab is employed to successfully obtain the controller gains satisfying selected design requirements. Designed control laws are evaluated according to these requirements and validation of the methodology is presented.

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Citation Formats
S. V. Özkan, “Structured H-Infinity controller design and analysis for highly maneuverable jet aircraft,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.