Advanced techniques for clearance of flight control laws /

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Imprint:New York : Springer, 2002.
Description:ix, 469 p. : 244 fig., tab. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Lecture notes in control and information sciences ; 283
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4736204
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Other authors / contributors:Varga, András, Dipl.-Ing.
ISBN:3540440542 (softcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Industrial Clearance of Flight Control Laws
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Tasks and Needs of the Industrial Clearance Process
  • Part II. Tutorial on Analysis Methods
  • 3. The Structured Singular Value and µ-Analysis
  • 4. The ?-Gap Metric and the Generalised Stability Margin
  • 5. A Polynomial-Based Clearance Method
  • 6. Bifurcation and Continuation Method
  • 7. Optimisation-Based Clearance
  • Part III. The HIRM=RIDE Benchmark
  • 8. The HIRM= Flight Dynamics Model
  • 9. The RIDE Controller
  • 10. Selected Clearance Criteria for HIRM=RIDE
  • Part IV. LFT Modelling of Uncertainty Models
  • 11. An Overview of System Modelling in LFT Form
  • 12. Physical Approach to LFT Modelling
  • 13. Uncertainty Bands Approach to LFT Modelling
  • 14. Flatness Approach to LFT Modelling
  • Part V. Analysis Results
  • 15. Baseline Solution
  • 16. µ-Analysis of Linear Stability Criteria
  • 17. µ-Analysis of Stability Margin Criteria
  • 18. ?-Gap Analysis of Stability Margin Criteria
  • 19. Polynomial-Based Clearance of Eigenvalue Criteria
  • 20. Bifurcation-Based Clearance of Linear Stability Criteria
  • 21. Optimisation-Based Clearance: The Linear Analysis
  • 22. Optimisation-Based Clearance: The Nonlinear Analysis
  • Part VI. Conclusions and Recommendations
  • 23. Industrial Evaluation
  • 24. Considerations for Clearance of Civil Transport Aircraft
  • 25. Concluding Remarks
  • A Nomenclature and Acronyms
  • Index