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7.3 EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS 203<br />

maintaining the level orientation (0 ◦ ) in roll and pitch axes. <strong>The</strong> yaw controller is tasked<br />

to maintain a zero angular rate reference. To simulate the efficiency <strong>of</strong> the NNAPC<br />

controllers in rejecting the input disturbances, the controller input values are added<br />

with constant input disturbances at each control channel. <strong>The</strong>se input disturbances<br />

are introduced one a time in every control channel after the steady state condition is<br />

achieved in each control channel.<br />

Figure 7.14 and 7.15 show the controller response pr<strong>of</strong>iles when the constant input<br />

disturbances <strong>of</strong> −0.075, 0.075, 0.02 and −0.01 are introduced to disturb the control<br />

moves (δ lat , δ long , δ ped , δ col ) for a duration <strong>of</strong> 500 ms. It is shown that the controllers<br />

perform satisfactorily well under input disturbance effects with both controllers returned<br />

back to the reference conditions after the insertion <strong>of</strong> the disturbances within 2.8 s<br />

(86 samples) at the most. This demonstrates the robustness <strong>of</strong> the proposed NNAPC<br />

algorithms in rejecting sudden movement <strong>of</strong> the helicopter. Slight improvements can be<br />

seen for the control response <strong>of</strong> the NNAPC-Online controllers in the pitch and yaw axes<br />

where the control response returns to the reference value faster than the NNAPC-Offline<br />

controllers in 0.56 s (17 samples) and 0.26 s (8 samples) respectively.

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