27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-9.6.2

A DEMONSTRATION OF PITCH-PLUNGE FLUTTER SUPPRESSION USING LQG CONTROL

A. N. Sutherland
CSIR, South Africa

Keywords: binary flutter, flutter suppression, lqg control

This paper details the results from wind tunnel tests of a two-dimensional active control flutter model. Despite the small size of the model, using a LQG controller, wind tunnel tests show the feasibility of using active control theory as a means to increase the flutter boundary of aircraft.

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