Simultaneous estimation of two bending vibration frequencies for attitude control of a flexible launch vehicle

Abstract

Current developments in the aerospace flight devices have led to a control system being designed in the presence of elastic behaviour. However, there are several ways to reduce the destructive effects of vibration in flexible systems. In this paper, a practical approach called ‘rigid model reference’ is extended to two vibration modes based on the gradient method. Furthermore, the existence of two dominant bending vibration modes in the output of measurement devices leads to a redesign of the control system. Robust stability of the new algorithm is investigated by using Kharitonov theorem. Simulation results illustrate considerable reduction of vibration effects on the output of measurement system considering the first and the second bending vibration modes.

Keywords

adaptive notch filter flexible launch vehicle bending vibration kharitonov theorem

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