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

Authors

Zhang Jin, College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing university of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China;
Suozhong Yuan, College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing university of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China;
Quanquan Gong, College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing university of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China;

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.

Recommended Citation

Jin, Zhang; Yuan, Suozhong; and Gong, Quanquan (2020) "Modeling and Control of Shaking Motion of Aerial Refueling Hose-Drogue," Journal of System Simulation: Vol. 28: Iss. 2, Article 19.
Available at: https://dc-china-simulation.researchcommons.org/journal/vol28/iss2/19

First Page

388

Revised Date

2015-01-20

DOI Link

https://doi.org/

Last Page

395

CLC

V212.1

Recommended Citation

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.