An Experimental Comparison of Controllers for a Vectored Thurst, Ducted Fan Engine
Michael Kantner, Bobby Bodenheimer, Pascale Bendotti, and Richard M. Murray
Abstract
Experimental comparisons between four different control design
methodologies are applied to a small vectored thrust engine. Each
controller is applied to three trajectories of varying
aggressiveness. The control strategies considered are LQR, Hinf, gain
scheduling, and feedback linearization. The experiments show that gain
scheduling is essential to achieving good performance. The strengths
and weaknesses of each methodology are also examined
Bobby Bodenheimer 
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