An Improvement of Model Predictive for Aircraft Longitudinal Flight Control Based on Intelligent Technique

Mohamed El-Sayed M. Essa (), Mahmoud Elsisi (), Mohamed Saleh Elsayed, Mohamed Fawzy Ahmed and Ahmed M. Elshafeey
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Mohamed El-Sayed M. Essa: Electrical Power and Machines Department, Institute of Aviation Engineering and Technology (I.A.E.T), Egyptian Aviation Academy, Imbab Airport, Giza 12815, Egypt
Mahmoud Elsisi: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung City 807618, Taiwan
Mohamed Saleh Elsayed: Aeronautical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt
Mohamed Fawzy Ahmed: Electrical Engineering Department (Control Engineering), Faculty of Engineering, Modern University for Technology & Information, Cairo 4410240, Egypt
Ahmed M. Elshafeey: Electronics and Communication Department, Institute of Aviation Engineering and Technology (I.A.E.T), Egyptian Aviation Academy, Imbab Airport, Giza 12815, Egypt

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 19, 1-24

Abstract: This paper introduces a new intelligent tuning for the model predictive control (MPC) based on an effective intelligent algorithm named the bat-inspired algorithm (BIA) for the aircraft longitudinal flight. The tuning of MPC horizon parameters represents the main challenge to adjust the system performance. So, the BIA algorithm is intended to overcome the tuning issue of MPC parameters due to conventional methods, such as trial and error or designer experience. The BIA is adopted to explore the best parameters of MPC based on the minimization of various time domain objective functions. The suggested aircraft model takes into account the aircraft dynamics and constraints. The nonlinear dynamics of aircraft, gust disturbance, parameters uncertainty and environment variations are considered the main issues against the control of aircraft to provide a good flight performance. The nonlinear autoregressive moving average (NARMA-L2) controller and proportional integral (PI) controller are suggested for aircraft control in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed MPC based on BIA. The proposed MPC based on BIA and suggested controllers are evaluated against various criteria and functions to prove the effectiveness of MPC based on BIA. The results confirm that the accomplishment of the suggested BIA-based MPC is outstanding to the NARMA-L2 and traditional PI controllers according to the cross-correlation criteria, integral time absolute error (ITAE), system overshoot, response settling time, and system robustness.

Keywords: robotics and intelligent systems; flight mechanics; model predictive control; bat inspired algorithm; NARMA-L2 controller; pilot stick (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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