VTOL system

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Consider the VTOL example. The following shortcuts ${\rm c}(\cdot)=\cos(\cdot),\quad {\rm s}(\cdot)=\sin(\cdot)$ are used. The $\Delta_0$ is given as

$$\begin{align*} \omega_{0}^{1} &: {\mathrm d}x-v_{x}{\mathrm d}t \\ \omega_{0}^{2} &: {\mathrm d}v_{x}-(u^{2}\epsilon {\mathrm c}(\theta)-u^{1}{\mathrm s}(\theta)){\mathrm d}t \\ \omega_{0}^{3} &: {\mathrm d}z-v_{z}{\mathrm d}t \\ \omega_{0}^{4} &: {\mathrm d}v_{z}-(u^{1}{\mathrm c}(\theta)+u^{2}\epsilon {\mathrm s}(\theta)-1){\mathrm d}t \\ \omega_{0}^{5} &: {\mathrm d}\theta-\omega {\mathrm d}t \\ \omega_{0}^{6} &: {\mathrm d}\omega-u^{2}{\mathrm d}t, \end{align*}$$

where $\epsilon$ is a constant parameter. It can be shown that $\Delta_{0,\mathrm{d}t}^{\perp} = \mathrm{span}\{\delta_{u^1},\delta_{u^2}\}$. Construct $\Delta_1 \in \Delta_0$ such that $v_0(\Delta_1)\in \Delta_1$ holds with $v_0=\Delta_{0,{\mathrm d}t}^{\perp}$, i.e. $\Delta_1$ is given as:

$\begin{align*} \omega_{1}^{1} &: {\mathrm d}x-v_{x}{\mathrm d}t \\ \omega_{1}^{2} &: {\mathrm c}(\theta){\mathrm d}v_{x}+{\mathrm s}(\theta){\mathrm d}v_{z}-\epsilon {\mathrm d}\omega+{\mathrm s}(\theta){\mathrm d}t \\ \omega_{1}^{3} &: {\mathrm d}z-v_{z}{\mathrm d}t \\ \omega_{1}^{4} &: {\mathrm d}\theta-\omega {\mathrm d}t \end{align*}$

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TitleOn calculating flat outputs for Pfaffian systems by a reduction procedure - Demonstrated by means of the VTOL example
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsSchoberl, M., and Schlacher K.
Conference Name9th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA), 2011
Date Published12/2011
PublisherIEEE
Conference LocationSantiago
ISBN Number978-1-4577-1475-7
Accession Number12496118
Keywordsaircraft control, machinery, partial differential equations, sequences
AbstractThis paper addresses the problem of generating a flat system parametrization for Pfaffian systems in a constructive manner. The main idea behind the procedure is a subsequent application of transformations that decompose a given Pfaffian system into a sequence of systems. This splitting of a Pfaffian system possesses the property that a parametrization of the bottom part can be elementarily obtained provided a rank criterion is met and the parametrization for the upper part is known. Then (if possible) this procedure will be repeated with the upper system to generate a sequence of systems by gradual reduction of the complexity of the problem. The application of the whole machinery to the VTOL example will demonstrate the effectiveness of the procedure. In fact the well known flat output for the VTOL and an alternative one are derived using this constructive machinery in a systematic fashion.
DOI10.1109/ICCA.2011.6137922