A Method to Compensate Interaction between Actuator Dynamics and Control Allocator under Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion Controller

Abstract

When designing flight control allocator for an over-actuated flight system, actuator dynamics, generally, are assumed to be ideal since the bandwidths of actuators are much larger than the frequency of aircraft. However, under incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion controller, the interaction between the constrained control allocation frame and actuator dynamics can cause serious consequence. In this work, a method is developed to compensate for actuator dynamics in s-domain analysis. Here, first-order and second-order actuator dynamics are taken into consideration as more complicated actuator dynamics can be combined by these two simplified models. This method solves for gains, which post-processe the output of control allocation frame. The gains are terse in form and are easy to be calculated, which means that it can be implemented into typical flight computer. Simulation results show proposed method can significantly compensate the flaw caused by actuator dynamics.