Linear Parameter-Varying Control of a Ducted Fan Engine
Bobby Bodenheimer, Pascale Bendotti, and Michael Kantner
Abstract
Parameter-dependent control techniques are applied to a
thrust vectored ducted fan engine. The synthesis technique is based
on the solution of Linear Matrix Inequalities and produces a
controller which achieves specified performance against the worst-case
time variation of measurable parameters entering the plant in a
linear fractional manner. Thus the plant can have widely varying
dynamics over the operating range. The controller designed performs
extremely well, and is compared to other controllers.
Bobby Bodenheimer 
Last modified: Thu Oct 28 10:15:26 1999