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Anti-Windup Flight Control Design for Agile Aerospace Vehicles |
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| Abstract: This paper describes a flight control design method for agile aerospace vehicle applications subject to rate saturation constraints. The model includes linear airframe dynamics and a second order nonlinear actuator. A baseline controller is synthesized utilizing the signal-based closed-loop shaping design method to obtain good performance and robustness metrics in the linear domain. Design of an Anti-Windup augmentation based on the rate saturation signal is then carried out to address the performance degradation of a constrained system. Three distinct Anti-Windup schemes are analyzed, ranging from classical to modern frameworks. A comparative analysis of the proposed compensators is provided by evaluating the L 2 gain and simulating a flight scenario under a nonlinear actuator with multiple saturations. All analyzed Anti-Windup schemes reduce the upper bound on the L2 gain of the system and show a significant improvement in disturbance rejection response. | ||||||||
| Keywords: Anti-Windup; Robust Control; H-infinity; Actuator Saturation | ||||||||
 View PDF CEAS-GNC-2026-029 doi: 10.82124/CEAS-GNC-2026-029 |
| Igor Pszczolkowski, Elmar Wallner, Sebastian Fleishmann, Spilios Theodoulis: Anti-Windup Flight Control Design for Agile Aerospace Vehicles. Proceedings of the 2026 CEAS EuroGNC conference. Madrid, Spain. May 2026. doi: 10.82124/CEAS-GNC-2026-029. |
| BibTeX entry (UTF-8): @Incollection{CEAS-GNC-2026-029, author = {Pszczolkowski, Igor and Wallner, Elmar and Fleishmann, Sebastian and Theodoulis, Spilios}, title = {Anti-Windup Flight Control Design for Agile Aerospace Vehicles}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 {CEAS EuroGNC} conference}, address = {Madrid, Spain}, month = may, year = {2026}, doi = {10.82124/CEAS-GNC-2026-029} } |