Application of an LPV based Model Reference FTC Scheme on the RECONFIGURE benchmark model

This paper describes the application of an FTC scheme on the RECONFIGURE benchmark model. The proposed scheme is built around an LPV based model reference sliding mode control allocation scheme. The idea is to use the existing industrial controller to generate an LPV based reference model and then to incorporate sliding mode (for robustness) and control allocation (for automatic control signal redistribution) elements to ensure nominal fault-free performance can be maintained in the face of actuator failures and wide variations in the flight envelope. The application results shown in this paper demonstrate the potential of the proposed scheme.