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16.333 Lecture # 9 Basic Longitudinal Control • Basic aircraft control concepts • Basic control approaches Fall 2004 16.333 8–1 Basic Longitudinal Control • Goal: analyze aircraft longitudinal dynamics to determine if the be­ havior is acceptable, and if not, then modify it using feedback control. • Note that we could (and will) work with the full dynamics model, but for now, let’s focus on the short period approximate model from lecture 7–5. x˙ = A x + B δ sp sp sp sp e where δe is the elevator input, and xsp = �w � , Asp = � −1 (M Zw /m −1 (M U0 ) � q Iyy w + Mw˙ Zw /m) Iyy q + Mw˙ U0 Bsp = � I −1 Zδe /m � yy (Mδe + Mw˙ Zδe /m) ˙ • Add that θ = q , so sθ = q • Take the output as θ, input is δ , then form the transfer function e � � θ(s) 1 q (s) −1 = = 0 1 (sI − Asp) Bsp δ (s) s δ (s) e e • As shown in the code, for the 747 (40Kft, M = 0.8) this reduces to: θ(s) 1.1569s + 0.3435 = − 2 ≡ Gθδe (s) δ (s) s(s + 0.7410s + 0.9272) e so that the dominant roots have a frequency of approximately 1 rad/sec and damping of about 0.4 Fall 2004