Methods and systems for controlling multi-body vehicles with fuel slosh are provided. In a method for stabilizing a vehicle with fuel slosh, a controller for a multi-body assembly is formed by selecting vehicle configuration and velocity as states of a rigid body. Equations of motion are written for the multi-body assembly, and velocity states are determined that are unactuated. A decoupling transformation is defined from the unactuated velocity states. The equations of motion are transformed using the decoupling transformation such that unactuated states are decoupled from actuated states. A slosh state estimator is coupled to the controller such that it is in operative communication with an input to the controller and an output from the controller.

 
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