Browsing by Author "Mirmirani, M."

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      Adaptive control of an aeroelastic airbreathing hypersonic cruise vehicle 

      Kuipers, M.; Mirmirani, M.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Huo, Y. (2007)
      This paper describes an adaptive linear quadratic (ALQ) altitude and velocity tracking control algorithm for the longitudinal model of a generic airbreathing hypersonic flight vehicle. The vehicle design is inspired by a ...
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      Adaptive linear quadratic design with application to F-16 fighter aircraft 

      Huo, Y.; Mirmirani, M.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Colgren, R. (2004)
      This paper investigates an adaptive linear quadratic (ALQ) control design with its application to the longitudinal model of the F-16 fighter aircraft. The certainty equivalence principle is used to combine the adaptive law ...
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      Adaptive sliding mode control of a hypersonic flight vehicle 

      Xu, H.; Leung, P.; Mirmirani, M.; Boussalis, Helen R.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2001)
      A Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) adaptive sliding controller is designed and analyzed for the longitudinal dynamics of a generic hypersonic air vehicle. This vehicle model is highly nonlinear, multivariable, unstable and ...
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      Altitude and velocity tracking control for an airbreathing hypersonic cruise vehicle 

      Huo, Y.; Mirmirani, M.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Kuipers, M. (2006)
      This paper describes an adaptive linear quadratic (ALQ) altitude and velocity tracking control algorithm for the longitudinal model of a generic airbreathing hypersonic flight vehicle hypersonic flight vehicle. The vehicle ...
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      Analysis of an adaptive mixing control scheme for an airbreathing hypersonic vehicle model 

      Kuipers, M.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Fidan, B.; Mirmirani, M. (2009)
      Recently the adaptive mixing control (AMC) approach has been applied to an airbreathing hypersonic flight vehicle (AHFV) model, and simulation results demonstrate that this adaptive scheme may be capable of improving ...
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      Control techniques for a large segmented reflector 

      Li, K.; Kosmatopoulos, E. B.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Boussalis, Helen R.; Mirmirani, M.; Chassiakos, Anastassios (1998)
      NASA has founded a project to design and construct a test-bed in the Controls and Structures Laboratory at the California State University to study the complex dynamic behavior of large segmented optical systems. The ...
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      Flight dynamics and control of air-breathing hypersonic vehicles: Review and new directions 

      Fidan, B.; Mirmirani, M.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2003)
      The current air-breathing hypersonic flight (AHF) technology programs focus on development of flight test vehicles and operational vehicle prototypes that utilize airframe-integrated scramjet engines. A key issue in making ...
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      An intelligent flight control design with guaranteed flying quality 

      Huo, Y.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Mirmirani, M. (2006)
      This paper investigates an adaptive pole placement control design aiming at guaranteed flying qualities, which are specified by military standards. Flying qualities are updated online with different flight regimes and are ...
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      Longitudinal motion control of air-breathing hypersonic vehicles based on time-varying models 

      Fidan, B.; Kuipers, M.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Mirmirani, M. (2006)
      The non-standard dynamic characteristics of air-breathing hypersonic flight vehicles together with the aerodynamic effects of hypersonic flight make the flight control of such systems highly challenging. Moreover the wide ...
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      Robust adaptive fault-tolerant control with trajectory optimization 

      Ying, H.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Mirmirani, M. (2007)
      This paper proposed an adaptive fault-tolerant flight control scheme where the trajectory optimization is combined with the certainty equivalence principle to achieve the optimal path with occurrence of failures. The ...
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      Robust adaptive multiple model controller design for an airbreathing hypersonic vehicle model 

      Kuipers, M.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Fidan, B.; Mirmirani, M. (2008)
      For airbreathing hypersonic flight vehicles (AHFVs), various uncertainties in addition to the coupling effects between the aerodynamics, propulsion, and structures result in a challenging control model. Capturing these ...
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      Robust adaptive sliding control of linearizable systems 

      Xu, H.; Mirmirani, M.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Boussalis, Helen R. (2001)
      A switching adaptive control algorithm based on a sliding mode method is proposed for a class of single-input, single-output nonlinear systems with unknown dynamics. The plant is assumed to be linear-in-the-control input ...
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      Robust neural adaptive control of a hypersonic aircraft 

      Xu, H.; Mirmirani, M.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2003)
      Design of a robust Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) neural adaptive controller for the longitudinal dynamics of a generic hypersonic aircraft is presented. This aircraft model is highly nonlinear, multivariable, unstable ...