Reachability-Based Design Optimization for Aircraft Maneuverability
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| author | Nguyen, Steven Orndorff, Nicholas Cortés, Jorge Kramer, Boris |
| author_facet | Nguyen, Steven Orndorff, Nicholas Cortés, Jorge Kramer, Boris |
| contents | This paper presents a method for incorporating control analysis into design optimization for highly-maneuverable aircraft. By studying reachable sets for aircraft dynamics, we ensure that the optimizer will take the aircraft's controlled capabilities into account. We compute reachable sets of linear dynamics for computational efficiency, and account for aircraft trim points to factor in asymmetric magnitude bounds on the input signals. We demonstrate the proposed method in design optimization of a blended-wing-body aircraft. Considering its wing half-span and center half-span as design variables, we optimize the aircraft based on its longitudinal dynamics' reachable sets to yield improvements in its controlled performance. When designing a reference tracking controller, we find up to 30\% less tracking error for angle of attack of the optimized model's nonlinear dynamics. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Reachability-Based Design Optimization for Aircraft Maneuverability Nguyen, Steven Orndorff, Nicholas Cortés, Jorge Kramer, Boris Optimization and Control This paper presents a method for incorporating control analysis into design optimization for highly-maneuverable aircraft. By studying reachable sets for aircraft dynamics, we ensure that the optimizer will take the aircraft's controlled capabilities into account. We compute reachable sets of linear dynamics for computational efficiency, and account for aircraft trim points to factor in asymmetric magnitude bounds on the input signals. We demonstrate the proposed method in design optimization of a blended-wing-body aircraft. Considering its wing half-span and center half-span as design variables, we optimize the aircraft based on its longitudinal dynamics' reachable sets to yield improvements in its controlled performance. When designing a reference tracking controller, we find up to 30\% less tracking error for angle of attack of the optimized model's nonlinear dynamics. |
| title | Reachability-Based Design Optimization for Aircraft Maneuverability |
| topic | Optimization and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26134 |