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Aircraft parameter estimation using a new filtering technique based upon a neural network and Gauss-Newton method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2016

N. K. Peyada  and
A. K. Ghosh
N. K. Peyada
Affiliation:
akg@iitk.ac.in, Department of aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
A. K. Ghosh
Affiliation:
akg@iitk.ac.in, Department of aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
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Abstract

A new parameter estimation method based upon neural network is proposed. The method proposed here uses feed forward neural networks to establish a neural model that could be used to predict subsequent time histories given the suitable measured initial conditions. The proposed neural model would not represent a generic flight dynamic model. The neural model in this case develops point to point fitting of the input and the output data. Thus, it could at best be referred to as flight dynamic model in restricted sense. Gauss-Newton method is then used to obtain optimal values of the aerodynamic parameters by minimising a suitable defined error cost function. The method has been validated using longitudinal and lateral-directional flight data of various test aircraft. The results thus obtained were compared with those obtained through wind tunnel test, or those obtained using Maximum likelihood and/or Filter error methods. Unlike, most of the parameter estimation methods, the proposed method does not require a prior description of the model. It also bypasses the requirement of solving equations of motion. This feature of the proposed method may have special significance in handling flight data of an unstable aircraft.

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Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 113 , Issue 1142 , April 2009 , pp. 243 - 252
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2009 

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