Robust Tracking Control Based QFT and Pade Approximation for Flight Simulator

Abstract:

A new design technique based QFT and Pade Approximation for tracking control has been proposed. QFT controller attempts to place all plant poles within a specified region on the s-plane to guarantee the desired closed loop performance. As for the robust dynamic tracking performance, a new algorithm to design the feedforward controller based pade approximation has been prescribed in the case that the preview information of the desired output is not available. Simulation results for flight simulator show that the proposed approach is effective, successful and applicable.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 383-390)
• Pages: 7600-7606
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.383-390.7600
• Online since: November 2011
• Authors: Zheng Hua Liu, Dong Kai Shen, Shi Zhang Liu
• Keywords: Flight Simulator, Pade Approximation, Quantitative Feedback Theory, Robust Control

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