Robust stabilization of an airlaunch system after launching phase

Cuong Nguyen Van (1) , Riccardo Marino (2) , Gilney Damm (1)

1 IBISC - Informatique, Biologie Intégrative et Systèmes Complexes
2 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica [Roma]

A Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) controller based on the dynamic feedback linearization technique is designed for the robust global stabilization of a new satellite launching strategy called (unmanned) airlaunch. This strategy consists in using a two-stages launching system. The first stage is composed of an airplane (manned or unmanned) that carries a rocket launcher which constitute the subsequent stages. The control objective is to stabilize the aircraft in the launch phase. It is developed and is applied to the full multi-input multi-output model of the aircraft. The considered model is highly nonlinear, mostly as a consequence of possible large angle of attack, sideslip and roll angle. Finally, the present work illustrates through simulations the good performance of the proposed control algorithm.

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]; Automatic

Cuong Nguyen Van, Riccardo Marino, Gilney Damm. Robust stabilization of an airlaunch system after launching phase. 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2012), Dec 2012, Maui, HI, United States. pp.3564--3569, ⟨10.1109/CDC.2012.6426432⟩. ⟨hal-00786859⟩