Research Article

Design and Analysis of Robust Fault Diagnosis Schemes for a Simulated Aircraft Model

Table 1

Nomenclature.

𝛼 Angle of attack
𝛽 Angle of sideslip
𝑝 𝜔 Roll rate
𝑞 𝜔 Pitch rate
𝑟 𝜔 Yaw rate
𝜙 Bank angle
𝜃 Elevation angle
𝜓 Heading angle
𝑛 𝑒 Engine shaft angular rate
[ 𝐼 𝑥 0 𝐼 𝑥 𝑧 0 𝐼 𝑦 0 𝐼 𝑥 𝑧 0 𝐼 𝑧 ] Inertia moment matrix
𝑉 True airspeed (TAS)
𝛿 𝑒 Elevator deflection angle
𝛿 𝑎 Aileron deflection angle
𝛿 𝑟 rudder deflection angle
𝛿 t h Throttle aperture percentage
𝐻 Altitude
𝛾 Flight path angle
𝑚 Airplane mass
𝜔 𝑢 , 𝜔 𝑣 , 𝜔 𝑤 Wind gust components