Extremum-Seeking Guidance and Conic-Sector-Based Control of Aerospace Systems
dc.contributor.author | Walsh, Alex | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-07T17:45:57Z | |
dc.date.available | NO_RESTRICTION | |
dc.date.available | 2018-06-07T17:45:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.date.submitted | ||
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/143993 | |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation studies guidance and control of aerospace systems. Guidance algorithms are used to determine desired trajectories of systems, and in particular, this dissertation examines constrained extremum-seeking guidance. This type of guidance is part of a class of algorithms that drives a system to the maximum or minimum of a performance function, where the exact relation between the function's input and output is unknown. This dissertation abstracts the problem of extremum-seeking to constrained matrix manifolds. Working with a constrained matrix manifold necessitates mathematics other than the familiar tools of linear systems. The performance function is optimized on the manifold by estimating a gradient using a Kalman filter, which can be modified to accommodate a wide variety of constraints and can filter measurement noise. A gradient-based optimization technique is then used to determine the extremum of the performance function. The developed algorithms are applied to aircraft and spacecraft. Control algorithms determine which system inputs are required to drive the systems outputs to follow the trajectory given by guidance. Aerospace systems are typically nonlinear, which makes control more challenging. One approach to control nonlinear systems is linear parameter varying (LPV) control, where well-established linear control techniques are extended to nonlinear systems. Although LPV control techniques work quite well, they require an LPV model of a system. This model is often an approximation of the real nonlinear system to be controlled, and any stability and performance guarantees that are derived using the system approximation are usually void on the real system. A solution to this problem can be found using the Passivity Theorem and the Conic Sector Theorem, two input-output stability theories, to synthesize LPV controllers. These controllers guarantee closed-loop stability even in the presence of system approximation. Several control techniques are derived and implemented in simulation and experimentation, where it is shown that these new controllers are robust to plant uncertainty. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.subject | extremum-seeking guidance | |
dc.subject | control | |
dc.subject | conic sector | |
dc.title | Extremum-Seeking Guidance and Conic-Sector-Based Control of Aerospace Systems | |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreename | PhD | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Aerospace Engineering | |
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantor | University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies | |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Forbes, James Richard | |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Sun, Jing | |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Bernstein, Dennis S | |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Panagou, Dimitra | |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Aerospace Engineering | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143993/1/aexwalsh_1.pdf | |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-3209-6479 | |
dc.identifier.name-orcid | Walsh, Alex; 0000-0002-3209-6479 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Dissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's) |
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