Linear Parameter-Varying Control of a Ducted Fan Engine
Bobby Bodenheimer, Pascale Bendotti, and Michael Kantner
To appear, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
Parameter-dependent control techniques are applied to a
vectored thrust, ducted fan engine. The synthesis technique is based
on the solution of Linear Matrix Inequalities and produces a
controller which achieves specified performance against the worst-case
time variation of measurable parameters entering the plant in a
linear fractional manner. Thus the plant can have widely varying
dynamics over the operating range. The controller designed performs
extremely well, and is compared to an H_infinity controller.
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