Control Canards

Control canards is a project to control the roll moment of the rocket during flight. This project uses MATLAB's Simulink application to model flight and, using it, put the controller to test.

Characteristics

Flight Simulation

The rocket's flight simulation model has 6 degrees of freedom, including variable mass effects. It doesn't consider descent - as the controller won't be operating during descent - and depends of pre-determined initial conditions as it won't either simulate and operate during rail ascent phase.

As inspiration, the model uses another flight simulator from Projeto Jupiter called RocketPy - a extremely precise 6DOF rocket's flight simulator.

Active control

The in development flight control system is based on a Matlab project called NASA HL-20 Lifting Body Airframe. The project's controller. At first moment, the objective is starting with the roll moment and evolve to a full flight control.

Motivation

Project Jupiter desires to improve flight perfomance of the rockets, therefore a control based rocket it's a natural path, we will strat the control development by controlling the roll moment, but in the future we desired to control others characteristics of the flight like apogee and trajectory.

Prerequisites

• Matlab >= R2016a
• Simulink >= R2016a
• Aerospace Blockset >= R2016a

Authors

• Adriano Augusto Antongiovanni
• Bruno Abdulklech Sorban
• Caio Nascimento Balreira
• Mateus Stano Junqueira
• Patrick Sampaio dos Santos Brandão
• Victor Campos Jinsi

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all support from professors and students involved with the creation of this software. A special thanks to Giovani Ceotto who gently used his time to support and share his knowledge, which are essential in the creation of this project.