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  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Control Systems
  • Aeronautics

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  • Aircraft experience significant structural stress from atmospheric turbulence.
  • Gust loads can compromise flight safety and structural integrity.
  • Existing load alleviation systems may lack adaptability to changing conditions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To implement and validate an adaptive controller for aircraft gust load alleviation.
  • To design a robust controller capable of reducing gust loads under varying nominal conditions.
  • To demonstrate the controller's effectiveness on subsonic transport aircraft.

Main Methods:

  • Development of an adaptive control algorithm.
  • Utilizing symmetric aileron deflection as the control actuation.
  • Validation through simulations on subsonic transport aircraft models.
  • Testing under diverse mass and flight conditions.

Main Results:

  • The adaptive controller successfully reduced gust loads.
  • Robustness demonstrated across different mass and flight conditions.
  • Controller performance maintained despite changes in gust frequency.
  • No parameter retuning was necessary after initial tuning for a specific gust model.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed adaptive controller is effective for gust load alleviation.
  • The controller offers robustness and adaptability for changing flight environments.
  • Symmetric aileron deflection is a viable control strategy for this application.