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20 CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW<br />

2.2 HELICOPTER DYNAMICS MODELLING AND SYSTEM<br />

IDENTIFICATION<br />

Numerous advanced control designs such as non-linear control and adaptive control have<br />

been developed over the years to overcome the limitation <strong>of</strong> linear control. <strong>The</strong>se designs<br />

typically require a mathematical model representation <strong>of</strong> the system to be controlled in<br />

the form <strong>of</strong> differential equations. <strong>The</strong>re are two basic ways to obtain a mathematical<br />

model <strong>of</strong> the system. <strong>The</strong> first method is to deduce the model in a constructive manner<br />

using first principle modelling (direct use <strong>of</strong> Newtonian Laws to describe the system<br />

behaviour). <strong>The</strong> second method is to infer the model from an experimental data set<br />

collected during experiments with the system. <strong>The</strong> latter approach <strong>of</strong> deriving the<br />

dynamic model <strong>of</strong> the system is also known as system identification approach.<br />

<strong>The</strong> first approach <strong>of</strong> modelling involves a comprehensive mathematical description<br />

about the dynamic system. <strong>The</strong> system itself is divided into multiple components that<br />

contribute to the total forces and moments affecting the system. Various unknown<br />

parameters in the mathematical model need to be approximated or measured through<br />

the mean <strong>of</strong> experimentation or measurement <strong>of</strong> physical parameters <strong>of</strong> the system.<br />

Thus, this would make the modelling task more complex and time consuming [Norgaard,<br />

2000]. On the other hand, the system identification approach <strong>of</strong>fers a more practical and<br />

simple solution to obtain a mathematical model <strong>of</strong> the system with a reasonable effort.<br />

<strong>The</strong> system identification approach can also be viewed as a function fitting process to<br />

obtain a model that best describes the measurement data from the experiment. However,<br />

the main drawback <strong>of</strong> this approach is that the experiment needs to be conducted in<br />

such a way that the system under consideration needs to be excited through its entire<br />

range <strong>of</strong> operation [Norgaard, 2000].<br />

<strong>The</strong> UAS helicopter dynamics is known to be a non-linear and time varying model <strong>of</strong><br />

high order multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) system. It is also an under-actuated<br />

system with four actuator inputs: main rotor collective pitch, lateral cyclic pitch,<br />

longitudinal cyclic pitch and tail rotor collective pitch. <strong>The</strong> first principle modelling<br />

approach uses physical principles and Newton’s second law to describe the dynamic

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