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AAE565 Mid-Term
Exam
Semester Project Part 4: Lateral-Directional Compensators and
Turning Loops
This is a take-home mid-term exam. You must not collaborate with
anyone else in completing this exam. You will hand in the six (6) figures
(each containing your name written by Matlab) as mentioned below. This
exam contains 5 parts labeled A, B, C, D and E.
This take-home mid-term exam picks up where Homework 7 leaves off. The
background Matlab and Simulink information (that you have been using all
along) can be found in the file LD Guidande3.zip located at the entry called
MATLAB files for Lateral-Directional Control and Guidance (a zip file, Version
3) located in the Learning Module called Topic 4 Control of Lateral-
Directional EOMs of the course Blackboard site.
From Homework 7 you should already have a completed Simulink model that
has all of the
following features:
1. Rudder and aileron actuators each with the transfer function 20/
(s+20)
2. Yaw damper with washout filter to make the damping ratio of the
Dutch roll mode
be approximately 0.7.
3. A bank angle command control system that made the complex pair of
attitude mode
poles have a damping ratio of approximately 0.9.
4. A bank angle command limiter (saturation nonlinearity) that
limits the BANK ANGLE COMMAND to be in the range +-20
degrees.
5. Ydot and Y feedback path to create a Y-command control system.
Recall that Y is the
east position variable.
6. Initial conditions that have the aircraft fying north at 502 ft/sec. For
the state-space
model xICsimple=[0 0 0 0 0]. For the two position integrators you
should have xNorthIC=-40000 and yEastIC= 125000. The file
Step4_New_Guidance_Setup.m should be used to help you set up

these initial conditions. This file also contains the x and y waypoints
that we will also use in subsequent parts of this project.
For this mid-term exam we want to do the following:
A. Command the aircraft to fy north on the line defined by Y=100,000ft.
Connect a step
function to your Y-command port that commands Y to be 125,000ft for
the first second and then commands 100,000 for the rest of time.
Remember to delete the commas when inputting large numbers into
Matlab. There should be no other active step functions anywhere else
on your Simulink model (an inactive step function commands an output
of zero for all time).
B. In the following time history analysis all figures of plots should have
your name written on them by the Matlab. You can add or
modify a title command to add your name to a plot. Your Simulink
model should include the To Workspace blocks as shown in the
Simulink model called LD_Guidance2.mdl. This allows post- simulation
plotting using time histories stored in the Matlab workspace.
C. Run your Simulink model for 10 seconds and perform post-Simulink
plotting using the script called Step5_New_Simulate_and_Plot. This
script will generate three figures of plots. On these plots we are
looking for the response of the F-16 to the initial turn to the left.
Specifically, we want to see the nice response in bank angle going
from 0 to 20 degrees (because of the limit). We dont want to see
overshoot in bank angle. Also we do not want to see significant
oscillations on yaw rate due to the Dutch roll mode.
D. Run your Simulink model for 1000 seconds and perform post-Simulink
plotting
using the script called Step5_New_Simulate_and_Plot. This script will
generate three more figures of plots. On these plots we are looking for
the F-16 to fy north on the line defined by Y=100,000ft. Specifically we
are looking for a smooth turn first to the left and then to the right with
the aircraft ending up flying north at Y=100,000ft. We do not want
to see oscillations anywhere in the simulation. The trajectory
should be smooth and the bank angle commands should not contain
oscillations.
Furthermore, there should not be significant oscillations in the Y-
command or Ydot-
command loops.
E. For this exam, hand in the six figures you generated above. You will be
judged on the basis of how well your plots demonstrate the desired
motion characteristics we mentioned above and underlined.