Multi-nozzle thrust matching control of STOVL engine

Abstract A multi-nozzle thrust matching control method is proposed in this paper to provide the thrust vector required of lift-fan type short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) aircrafts during hover. Attitude-matched thrust commands for each nozzle of STOVL engine are generated based on a six-degree-of-freedom aircraft model. The thrust controller is divided into two blocks according to the coupling analysis. Based on the combination of linear matrix inequality and differential evolution algorithm, a multi-target controller parameters optimization method is proposed to achieve stable disturbance suppression and fast command tracking. Simulations results show that the proposed command generated model is effective and the decoupling control method can effectively suppress the coupling between the loops and realize the matching control of thrust.