Modeling and nonlinear control design for a class of hypersonic aircraft

A six degree-of-freedom nonlinear model of a class of the near space hypersonic aircraft is proposed and modified according to the series of literatures of Winged-Cone offered by America NASA Langly Lab. This model can meet the demand of strong nonlinearity, high coupling, and rapid time variation of hypersonic aircraft control system. Adaptive backstepping method is applied to control design. Both theory analysis and simulation verification show the simpleness and effectiveness of this method.