Fuzzy adaptive fixed-time fault-tolerant attitude tracking control for tailless flying wing aircrafts

This work investigates the fault-tolerant attitude tracking control problem for the tailless flying wing aircraft in the presence of an external disturbance, uncertain parameters, and time-varying actuator failures. First, the external disturbance, uncertainty, and time-varying actuator failures are skillfully transformed into a lumped uncertainty, followed by an approximator constructed by employing an interval type-2 fuzzy logic system (IT2-FLS). On this basis, a fixed-time IT2 fuzzy fault-tolerant control scheme is proposed, which can guarantee that all the signals of the closed-loop system have fixed-time convergence. The desired control torque is allocated to each control surface through a recurrent neural network (RNN) based control allocation algorithm by considering the magnitude and rate constraints of the actuators. Finally, the two representative simulations have been conducted to validate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed control scheme and control allocation algorithm. (c) 2022 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

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This work investigates the fault-tolerant attitude tracking control problem for a tailless flying wing aircraft in the presence of external disturbance, uncertain parameters, and time-varying actuator failures. A fixed-time IT2 fuzzy fault-tolerant control scheme is proposed, which guarantees fixed-time convergence of all signals in the closed-loop system. The control allocation algorithm, based on a recurrent neural network, allocates the desired control torque to each control surface considering the magnitude and rate constraints of the actuators.