Robust smooth transfer for tilt-rotor aircraft under the asynchronous switching

Abstract To achieve the flight mode transfer of the tilt-rotor aircraft, this paper develops a smooth switching method for an weighted L2 robust asynchronously switched system. Considering the asynchronous phenomenon that exists in the switching control of the tilt-rotor aircraft, first, a sufficient condition for the existence of the sub-controller is derived, which guarantees the exponential stability and weighted L2 performance. Besides, the on-line system and the off-line system are separately employed to realize the continuity of the control input signals, which further improve the transient performance and smoothness of the asynchronously switched system. The simulations on the tilt-rotor aircraft verify the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed method.