Attitude Stability Control and Visualization Simulation for Vertical
Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Fixed-Wing Aircraft 2023-01-7102
Direct debugging of a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fixed-wing aircraft’s
control system can easily result in risk and personnel damage. It is effectively
to employ simulation and numerical methods to validate control performance. In
this paper, the attitude stabilization controller for VTOL fixed-wing aircraft
is designed, and the controller performance is verified by MATLAB and visual
simulation software, which significantly increases designed efficiency and
safety of the controller. In detail, we first develop the VTOL fixed-wing
aircraft’s six degrees of freedom kinematics and dynamics models using Simulink
module, and the cascade PID control technique is applied to the VTOL aircraft’s
attitude stabilization control. Then the visual simulation program records the
flight data and displays the flight course and condition, which can validate the
designed controller performance effectively. It can be concluded that the
designed VTOL fixed-wing aircraft control visual simulation system, can
demonstrate the effectiveness of the control algorithm, which has a wide range
of potential applications.