Cargo blocking failure analysis, simulation, and safety control of transport aircraft with continuous heavy airdrop

• Main Authors: Jie Chen, Cunbao Ma, Dong Song
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-02-01
• Series: International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1177/1729881418757047

This article investigates the cargo’s blocking failure analysis, simulation, and safety control of transport aircraft with continuous heavy airdrop. As the cargos move backward and drop out, the continuous variation of center of gravity for the whole system will deteriorate flight quality dramatically. Furthermore, due to various mechanical reasons, if the cargo is blocked on the delivery channel and the airdrop process is suspended suddenly at this time, the flight safety may be threatened. In view of this, the blocking failure is analyzed based on the aircraft model in this article and then the simulation is completed to show the failure’s impact on aircraft’s flight quality. Next, based on the uncertainty analysis and introduction of interval robust control theory, the safety controller is designed to stable the closed-loop system. The final simulation shows the proposed safety control strategy’s effectiveness.