Flight evaluation of a sliding mode online control allocation scheme for fault tolerant control

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this recordThis paper develops a sliding mode fault tolerant control scheme based on a Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) system representation of the plant. The scheme includes a control allocation component, which is capable of utilizing the available healthy actuators in the face of actuator faults/failures, in an effort to retain close to nominal fault free performance. The proposed scheme is validated using the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Multi-Purpose Aviation Laboratory (MuPALα) research aircraft. The flight test results demonstrate good lateral-directional state tracking performance with no visible performance degradation in the presence of rudder and aileron faults.European Union Horizon 2020Japan New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organizatio