ROBUST CONTROL OF AN EVTOL THROUGH TRANSITION WITH A GAIN SCHEDULING LQR CONTROLLER

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dc.contributor.advisorXu, Huanen_US
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Dereken_US
dc.contributor.departmentAerospace Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-13T06:30:53Z
dc.date.available2021-02-13T06:30:53Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.description.abstractThe advancements in electric motor propulsion and battery technologies have made the implementation of electric power in aerial transportation increasingly feasible. As such, the interest and development of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft has become a greater portion of the market. This increase drives a need for research into control of the eVTOLs to ensure safe flight through the transition from hover to forward flight. This paper proposes a control strategy using the transition dynamics in a gain scheduling LQR attitude controller to robustly control the vehicle at any point throughout transition. The proposed control strategy is tested through implementation in nonlinear 3DOF and 6DOF simulations. The robustness of the controller is tested through simulating transition and virtual mission profiles.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/ulnk-f0vk
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/26700
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAerospace engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledeVTOLen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGain Schedulingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLQRen_US
dc.titleROBUST CONTROL OF AN EVTOL THROUGH TRANSITION WITH A GAIN SCHEDULING LQR CONTROLLERen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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