Design of an NSMCR Based Controller for All-Electric Aircraft Anti-Skid Braking System

Abstract

In this paper, a relative threshold event-triggered based novel complementary sliding mode control (NSMCR) algorithm of all-electric aircraft (AEA) anti-skid braking system (ABS) is proposed to guarantee the braking stability and tracking precision of reference wheel slip control. First, a model of the braking system is established in strict-feedback form. Then a virtual controller with a nonlinear control algorithm is proposed to address the problem of constraint control regarding wheel slip rate with asymptotical stability. Next, a novel approaching law-based complementary sliding mode controller is developed to keep track of braking pressure. Moreover, the robust adaptive law is designed to estimate the uncertainties of the braking systems online to alleviate the chattering problem of the braking pressure controller. Additionally, to reduce the network communication and actuator wear of AEA-ABS, a relative threshold event trigger mechanism is proposed to transmit the output of NSMC in demand. The simulation results under various algorithms regarding three types of runway indicate that the proposed algorithms can improve the performance of braking control. In addition, the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experimental results prove that the proposed methods are practical for real-time applications.

Keywords

• adaptive backstepping control
• complementary sliding mode control
• nonlinear control
• event-triggered mechanism
• aircraft braking system