A Decentralized LQR Output Feedback Control for Aero-Engines

Abstract

Aero-engine control systems generally adopt centralized or distributed control schemes, in which all or most of the tasks of the control system are mapped to a specific processor for processing. The performance and reliability of this processor have a significant impact on the control system. Based on the aero-engine distributed control system (DCS), we propose a decentralized controller scheme. The characteristic of this scheme is that a network composed of a group of nodes acts as the controller of the system, so that there is no core control processor in the system, and the computation is distributed throughout the entire network. An LQR output feedback control is constructed using system input and output, and the control tasks are executed on each node in the decentralized controller. The constructed LQR output feedback is equivalent to the optimal LQR state feedback. The primal-dual principle is used to tune the parameters of each decentralized controller. The parameter tuning algorithm is simple to calculate, making it conducive for engineering applications. Finally, the proposed scheme was verified by simulation. The simulation results show that a high-precision feedback gain matrix can be obtained with a maximum of eight iterations. The parameter tuning algorithm proposed in this paper converges quickly during the calculation process, and the constructed output feedback scheme achieves equivalent performance to the state feedback scheme, demonstrating the effectiveness of the design scheme proposed in this paper.

A Linear Iterative Controller for Software Defined Control Systems of Aero-Engines Based on LMI

“…Ref. [32] proposed the Software Defined Control Systems (SDCS) for aero-engines. The SDCS for aero-engines is based on the DCS for aero-engines, and it has been proposed alongside advancements in computer technology, communication technology, sensor technology, data storage technology, and other related support technologies.…”