Control of Hypersonic Vehicles
This research is concerned with the application of methods of robust and nonlinear control theory to the problem of designing a flight control systems for a hypersonic vehicle. Using existing models available in the literature, the method of feedback linearization can be applied to design a flight control system. However, the available models are know to be highly inaccurate due to a lack of experimental data. Hence, in this research, the feedback linearization method is combined with uncertainty modelling and minimax optimal control methods to design nonlinear robust controllers for hypersonic vehicles. One PhD student is currently working on this project.