Constrained Control Allocation for Overactuated Aircraft Using a Neurodynamic Model

In this paper, a constrained control allocation scheme is designed based on the neurodynamic model for an overactuated aircraft with system uncertainties and unknown time-varying external disturbances. To generate the control command signals, an adaptive neural attitude controller is developed, taking into consideration the nonsymmetric input saturation constraint. This control scheme can guarantee semi-global uniform ultimate boundedness for all signals in the closed-loop system. The control command signals are sent to the actuators of the overactuated aircraft via the constrained control allocation scheme. Based on the developed adaptive neural attitude control scheme, the control allocation is designed with the position and rate constraints of actuators taken into account. We pose this constrained control allocation as a convex nonlinear programming problem and use a recurrent neural network as its solver. Simulation study on a near space vehicle is conducted to illustrate the effectiveness of the developed adaptive neural attitude control scheme and the constrained control allocation scheme.