Control of a very flexible wing with simultaneous optimization of the gain matrix and the spatial distribution of the sensors

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© 31st Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2018. All rights reserved.To stabilize a very flexible wing with a control system it is necessary to feedback wing measurements such as accelerations, deformations or displacements. In a previous work, displacement sensors were positioned at the wing tips and then the gain matrix of the feedback control was optimized. In this way, the performance of the control is restricted to the predetermined position of the sensors. Hence, in this paper we apply another methodology to simultaneously optimize the sensors positioning and the gain matrix. The results are compared in order to evaluate the benefits of this methodology in the considered problem.

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