He is also working as a Robotic Researcher with Robotmaster. His research interests include robotics and control, computer vision, nonlinear systems, visual servoing, system identification, and artificial intelligence.Wen-Fang Xie (SM'12) received the Master's degree in flight control from Beihang University, Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. degree in intelligent process control from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, in 1991 and 1999, respectively.
This paper considers robust model predictive control (RMPC) methods for a linear parameter varying (LPV) system that has both probabilistic uncertain and time-varying parameters. The parameters are considered to be measured online. In this regard, the aircraft landing gear system is considered as an LPV system whose parameters variation can affect both stability and performance. By transforming this system into a convex combination of linear time-invariant vertices form with the tensor-product (TP) model transformation method, the landing gear system is represented as a polytopic linear parameter-varying system. A computationally efficient RMPC control signal law is calculated online by carrying out the convex optimization involving linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) in MPC which leads to finding the solutions that can guarantee the closed-loop robust stability and performance. The proposed controller can effectively suppress the shimmy vibration of the landing gear with variable taxiing velocity and wheel caster length, also with the probabilistic uncertain torsional spring stiffness.
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