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A Novel Adaptive Aeroservoelastic Coupling Suppression Algorithm for the A330 SMART MRTT Flying Boom Control Laws
Rodney Rodríguez Robles Lead Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer, Airbus UpNext, Autonomy Demonstrator, 28906, Getafe, Spain.
Abstract:
The A330 SMART MRTT program will develop, certify and implement Automatic Air-to-Air Refuelling (A3R) capability as well as enhanced and more resilient adaptive Flying Boom Control Laws, among other functionalities. The present paper describes a novel algorithm developed to provide robust and adaptive aeroservoelastic coupling suppression functionalities to the Flying Boom Control Laws, by means of the cancelation of the elastic modes component in the attitudes and angular rates feedback signals, while maintaining the components related to the rigid dynamics of the system unaltered. The algorithm uses an adaptive elastic mode identification technique in combination with an exogenous boundary physical condition estimator to optimally fuse the measured signals, providing excellent aeroservoelastic coupling suppression performances for every phase of the refuelling operation. Results obtained during the development flight test campaign performed with both the A310 MRTT testbed and the A330 SMART MRTT platforms will be presented to validate the robustness and performance of the proposed algorithm.
Keywords: Aeroservoelastic Coupling Suppression; Adaptive Control; Very Flexible Structures
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Rodney Rodríguez Robles: A Novel Adaptive Aeroservoelastic Coupling Suppression Algorithm for the A330 SMART MRTT Flying Boom Control Laws. Proceedings of the 2022 CEAS EuroGNC conference. Berlin, Germany. May 2022. CEAS-GNC-2022-064.
BibTeX entry:

@Incollection{CEAS-GNC-2022-064,
    authors = {Rodríguez Robles, Rodney},
    title = {A Novel Adaptive Aeroservoelastic Coupling Suppression Algorithm for the A330 SMART MRTT Flying Boom Control Laws},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 {CEAS EuroGNC} conference},
    address = {Berlin, Germany},
    month = may,
    year = {2022},
    note = {CEAS-GNC-2022-064}
}