Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2020, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (4): 826-840.doi: 10.23919/JSEE.2020.000056

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Control allocation for a class of morphing aircraft with integer constraints based on Lévy flight

Yao LU1,2,*(), You SUN1,2(), Xiaodong LIU1,2(), Bo GAO1,2()   

  1. 1 Beijing Aerospace Automatic Control Institute, Beijing 100854, China
    2 National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Aerospace Intelligence Control, Beijing 100854, China
  • Received:2019-05-05 Online:2020-08-25 Published:2020-08-25
  • Contact: Yao LU E-mail:luyaosacred@126.com;sunyou1979@126.com;k.start@163.com;buaa@126.com
  • About author:LU Yao was born in 1987. He received his Ph.D. degree in flight vehicle design from Beihang University in 2017. He is currently an engineer in Beijing Aerospace Automatic Control Institute. His research interests include nonlinear control and intelligence control. E-mail: luyaosacred@126.com|SUN You was born in 1979. He received his M.S. degree in guidance, navigation and control from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2004. He is currently a professor of engineering in Beijing Aerospace Automatic Control Institute. His research interests include missile guidance and control, guided projectile, and fault detection. E-mail: sunyou1979@126.com|LIU Xiaodong was born in 1987. He received his Ph.D. degree in guidance, navigation and control from Beihang University in 2013. He is currently an engineer in Beijing Aerospace Automatic Control Institute. His research interests include hypersonic flight control, integrated guidance and control and intelligence control. E-mail: k.start@163.com|GAO Bo was born in 1986. He received his M.S. degree in guidance, navigation and control from Beihang University in 2011. He is currently an engineer in Beijing Aerospace Automatic Control Institute. His research interests include robotic control and fuzzy control. E-mail: gaobo1986 buaa@126.com
  • Supported by:
    the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61803357);This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61803357)

Abstract:

Aiming at tracking control of a class of innovative control effector (ICE) aircraft with distributed arrays of actuators, this paper proposes a control allocation scheme based on the Lévy flight. Different from the conventional aircraft control allocation problem, the particular characteristic of actuators makes the actuator control command totally subject to integer constraints. In order to tackle this problem, first, the control allocation problem is described as an integer programming problem with two desired objectives. Then considering the requirement of real-time, a metaheuristic algorithm based on the Lévy flight is introduced to tackling this problem. In order to improve the searching efficiency, several targeted and heuristic strategies including variable step length and inherited population initialization according to feedback and so on are designed. Moreover, to prevent the incertitude of the metaheuristic algorithm and ensure the flight stability, a guaranteed control strategy is designed. Finally, a time-varying simulation model is introduced to verifying the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. The contrastive simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme achieves superior tracking performance with appropriate actuator dynamics and computational time, and the improvements for efficiency are active and the parameter settings are reasonable.

Key words: flight control, control allocation, optimization, Lévy flight, tracking control