Neural-fuzzy scheduling of h robust controllers for a high performance fighter aircraft under a herbst-like manoeuvre

This paper presents a flight control system design method witha neural-fuzzy gain-scheduling algorithm with learning capability for a high performance fighter aircraft undergoing a high angle of attack velocity vector roll manoeuvre. This manoeuvre is similar to the Herbst manoeuvre, hence also called a Herbst-like manoeuvre. Two linear H robust controllers are designed by using the mu -synthesis method at two trim conditions that cover the whole dynamic range of this manoeuvre. Then a scheduling technique is proposed, using the neural-fuzzy concept, together witha dynamic back propagation algorithm for its training. Simulation results, using a recently developed non-linear six-degree-of-freedom aircraft simulation package, demonstrate that the neural-fuzzy scheduler can be trained by using the dynamic back propagation algorithm to achieve better closed-loop tracking performance, and the proposed neural-fuzzy scheduled flight control system gives satisfactory performance inexecuting this Herbst-like manoeuvre.