An aircraft tractor plays a significant role as a kind of important marine transport and support equipment. It's necessary to study its controlling and manoeuvring stability to improve operation efficiency. A virtual...An aircraft tractor plays a significant role as a kind of important marine transport and support equipment. It's necessary to study its controlling and manoeuvring stability to improve operation efficiency. A virtual prototyping model of the tractor-aircraft system based on Lagrange's equation of the first kind with Lagrange mutipliers was established in this paper, According to the towing characteristics, a path-tracking controller using fuzzy logic theory was designed. Direction control herein was carried out through a compensatory tracking approach. Interactive co-simulation was performed to validate the path-tracking behavior in closed-loop, Simulation results indicated that the tractor followed the reference courses precisely on a flat ground.展开更多
基金Harbin Technological Innovation Research Fund(NO:2012RFXXG039)
文摘An aircraft tractor plays a significant role as a kind of important marine transport and support equipment. It's necessary to study its controlling and manoeuvring stability to improve operation efficiency. A virtual prototyping model of the tractor-aircraft system based on Lagrange's equation of the first kind with Lagrange mutipliers was established in this paper, According to the towing characteristics, a path-tracking controller using fuzzy logic theory was designed. Direction control herein was carried out through a compensatory tracking approach. Interactive co-simulation was performed to validate the path-tracking behavior in closed-loop, Simulation results indicated that the tractor followed the reference courses precisely on a flat ground.