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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering >> 2017, Volume 18, Issue 5 doi: 10.1631/FITEE.1500464

Adaptive tracking control for air-breathing hypersonic vehicles with state constraints

Science and Technology on Space Intelligent Control Laboratory, Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Beijing 100190, China

Available online: 2017-06-22

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Abstract

We investigate the adaptive tracking problem for the longitudinal dynamics of state-constrained airbreathing hypersonic vehicles, where not only the velocity and the altitude, but also the angle of attack (AOA) is required to be tracked. A novel indirect AOA tracking strategy is proposed by viewing the pitch angle as a new output and devising an appropriate pitch angle reference trajectory. Then based on the redefined outputs (i.e., the velocity, the altitude, and the pitch angle), a modified backstepping design is proposed where the barrier Lyapunov function is used to solve the state-constrained control problem and the control gain of this class of systems is unknown. Stability analysis is given to show that the tracking objective is achieved, all the closed-loop signals are bounded, and all the states always satisfy the given constraints. Finally, numerical simulations verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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