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Total Energy Control of Aircraft Longitudinal Motion

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The paper considers the creation of a system for controlling the longitudinal motion of aircraft based on the principle of total energy control. The structure of the control system is presented, including a kernel independent of aircraft and a transition to commands for elevator and thrust deflection obtained from the principle of inverse models. The control system is implemented for models of three aircraft with different aerodynamic configurations. The quality of regulation was studied by numerical simulation.

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This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (state registration no. 121042900050-6).

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    S. A. Belokon, Yu. N. Zolotukhin, K. Yu. Kotov, A. S. Maltsev & A. P. Yan

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Belokon, S.A., Zolotukhin, Y.N., Kotov, K.Y. et al. Total Energy Control of Aircraft Longitudinal Motion. Optoelectron.Instrument.Proc. 59, 580–591 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3103/S8756699023050011

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