Design on automatic alignment control law for aerial boom refueling

摘要

Kinematics dynamics modeling of the refueling boom system is established for aerial boom refueling, and then automatic alignment control law is designed for three-channel model of the system. The tracking control of the boom's attitude, including pitch angle, roll angle and expansion amount is studied for the aerial boom refueling hardware-in-the-loop simulation test platform. In order to realize the goal that the boom can track the receptacle autonomously, a realtime tracking algorithm is designed. Results from the digital simulation and the hardware-in-the-loop demonstration are presented which show that the automatic alignment control law of the boom system designed in this paper is feasible and effective.