Modeling and Control of Shaking Motion of Aerial Refueling Hose-Drogue

Abstract

Abstract: Hose-Drogue fly with the tanker in the air can produce shaking motion which increases the difficulty of coupling with a refueling drogue for a receiver plane safely and accurately. A mathematical model of shaking motion of aerial refueling hose drogue under the tanker wake and atmospheric turbulence was proposed by the method of rigid multibody dynamics. Then the balance drag wake of hose-drogue and the atmospheric turbulence on hose-drogue in different flight conditions were analyzed based on this model. To reduce the movement amplitude of the hose-drogue in the air, the controller to the motion of the hose-drogue was designed. The no-linear model was linearized and reduced to design PID (proportion-integration-differentiation) controller. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the control to the shaking motion of the hose-drogue, and then it can reduce the difficulty of aerial refueling docking enhancing the security of aerial refueling.

Key words: aerial refueling, shaking motion of hose-drogue, rigid multibody dynamics, PID controller

CLC Number:

V212.1

Zhang Jin, Yuan Suozhong, Gong Quanquan. Modeling and Control of Shaking Motion of Aerial Refueling Hose-Drogue[J]. Journal of System Simulation, 2016, 28(2): 388-395.

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