About Me

I am an Aerospace Engineer with specialties in flutter, fluid structure interactions, and the use of CFD in a production environment. My dissertation shows how to improve the state-of-the-art unsteady CFD performance by 2 orders of magnitude. I am an engineer, a pilot, a marksman, a husband, and a dad.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Project Review: Nonlinear Delta Wing Analysis and Control


Numerical Single-Degree-of-Freedom Analysis and Control of an 80
Degree Delta Wing with an Analytical Roll Moment Model

Charles O'Neill
December 2003


This project surveys nonlinear analysis and control methods for a specific two-degree-of-freedom analytical delta wing model. Linearization, phase plane analysis and existence theorems are used to describe the overall system behavior without solving the differential equations. A describing function is developed for the nonlinear system and favorably compares to the actual limit cycle amplitudes and frequencies. Linear pole placement and Ricatti control methods and nonlinear sliding mode and Lyapunov control laws are developed for stabilization and tracking.

Sliding Mode Control Schematic

See the full project at wingrock.pdf

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