Designing a controller for the docking maneuver in Probe-Drogue Refueling(PDR) is an important but challenging task, due to the complex system model and the high precision requirement.In order to overcome the disadvan...Designing a controller for the docking maneuver in Probe-Drogue Refueling(PDR) is an important but challenging task, due to the complex system model and the high precision requirement.In order to overcome the disadvantage of only feedback control, a feedforward control scheme known as Iterative Learning Control(ILC) is adopted in this paper.First, Additive State Decomposition(ASD) is used to address the tight coupling of input saturation, nonlinearity and the property of Non Minimum Phase(NMP) by separating these features into two subsystems(a primary system and a secondary system).After system decomposition, an adjoint-type ILC is applied to the Linear Time-Invariant(LTI) primary system with NMP to achieve entire output trajectory tracking, whereas state feedback is used to stabilize the secondary system with input saturation.The two controllers designed for the two subsystems can be combined to achieve the original control goal of the PDR system.Furthermore, to compensate for the receiverindependent uncertainties, a correction action is proposed by using the terminal docking error,which can lead to a smaller docking error at the docking moment.Simulation tests have been carried out to demonstrate the performance of the proposed control method, which has some advantages over the traditional derivative-type ILC and adjoint-type ILC in the docking control of PDR.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61473012)。
文摘Designing a controller for the docking maneuver in Probe-Drogue Refueling(PDR) is an important but challenging task, due to the complex system model and the high precision requirement.In order to overcome the disadvantage of only feedback control, a feedforward control scheme known as Iterative Learning Control(ILC) is adopted in this paper.First, Additive State Decomposition(ASD) is used to address the tight coupling of input saturation, nonlinearity and the property of Non Minimum Phase(NMP) by separating these features into two subsystems(a primary system and a secondary system).After system decomposition, an adjoint-type ILC is applied to the Linear Time-Invariant(LTI) primary system with NMP to achieve entire output trajectory tracking, whereas state feedback is used to stabilize the secondary system with input saturation.The two controllers designed for the two subsystems can be combined to achieve the original control goal of the PDR system.Furthermore, to compensate for the receiverindependent uncertainties, a correction action is proposed by using the terminal docking error,which can lead to a smaller docking error at the docking moment.Simulation tests have been carried out to demonstrate the performance of the proposed control method, which has some advantages over the traditional derivative-type ILC and adjoint-type ILC in the docking control of PDR.
