Aeroservoelastic Uncertainty Model Identification From Flight Data

Brenner, Martin J. (2001) Aeroservoelastic Uncertainty Model Identification From Flight Data. Technical Report NASA/TM-2001-210397, Research Engineering, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.

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Abstract

Uncertainty modeling is a critical element in the estimation of robust stability margins for stability boundary prediction and robust flight control system development. There has been a serious deficiency to date in aeroservoelastic data analysis with attention to uncertainty modeling. Uncertainty can be estimated from flight data using both parametric and nonparametric identification techniques. The model validation problem addressed in this paper is to identify aeroservoelastic models with associated uncertainty structures from a limited amount of controlled excitation inputs over an extensive flight envelope. The challenge to this problem is to update analytical models from flight data estimates while also deriving non-conservative uncertainty descriptions consistent with the flight data. Multisine control surface command inputs and control system feedbacks are used as signals in a wavelet-based modal parameter estimation procedure for model updates. Transfer function estimates are incorporated in a robust minimax estimation scheme to get input-output parameters and error bounds consistent with the data and model structure. Uncertainty estimates derived from the data in this manner provide an appropriate and relevant representation for model development and robust stability analysis. This model-plus-uncertainty identification procedure is applied to aeroservoelastic flight data from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center F-18 Systems Research Aircraft.

EPrint Type:	NASA Technical Memorandum
Keywords:	Aeroservoelasticity, Modal identification, Morlet wavelet, Robust minimax estimation, Robust stability, µ-analysis
Subjects:	(01 - 09) Aeronautics: (08) Aircraft Stability And Control
ID Code:	996
Deposited On:	28 June 2006
Additional Information:	23 pages. Presented at CEAS/AIAA International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics, Madrid, Spain, June 5–7, 2001. Self-published PDF provided by author.