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The mutual restriction and interference of multi-body motion in the development and verification of refueling boom bring great challenges to its control system design. By improving the robustness and control accuracy of each control channel, the whole performance cannot be improved obviously even at a great cost. On the basis of the mechanism of human multiple cooperative activities, a control strategy which uses dynamically cross feedback to give real-time correction is proposed to solve the multi-body control problems. Two design cases were given later, including solving the force-fight between boom tube and refueling aircraft after docking, and dealing with the difficulty of improving the two-motor coordination in the ground attitude simulation control. The simulation results show that the application of the dynamic feedback correction technique improves the control accuracy, anti-interference and fault-tolerant performance of the control system.
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Du, Y., Jiang, F. (2022). Multi-body Cooperative Control Strategy of Refueling Boom. In: Yan, L., Duan, H., Yu, X. (eds) Advances in Guidance, Navigation and Control . Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 644. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8155-7_398
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