Test, Launch and Control
HUANG Hao, DU Lifu, XUE Donglin, WANG Junzhe, WEI Changzhu
Aerospace Control.
2025, 43(6):
74-82.
The selection of stable spin angular velocity for aircraft is focused in this paper. A method for choosing a stable angular velocity based on the spin stability criterion of aircraft is researched and proposed. Through theoretical analysis of the coning motion dynamics of spinning vehicles, the coupled effects of static stability moment, Magnus moment, and damping moment on the directional stability of the projectile body are fundamentally revealed. Based on a coning motion angular dynamics model under the constraints of deviations between the center of mass and the center of pressure, a system characteristic equation is established and the Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion is then employed to formulate a dynamic stability criterion. Furthermore, on the basis of the traditional three-degree-of-freedom trajectory model, the derived dynamic stability criterion for coning motion is used to deduce the feasible region for the spin angular velocity. A stable spin rate scheme for the aircraft is subsequently designed based on this region. Numerical simulation results demonstrate that the coning motion divergence is effectively suppressed by using proposed method that simultaneously reduces control energy consumption in the pitch/yaw channels. The achievement presented hereinabove provide a technical pathway to directional stable flight with low-energy-consumption attitude control by applying the spin characteristics of aircraft, which can offer significant theoretical and practical value.