An Algorithm to Improve Accuracy of Flush Air Data Sensing

In the field of aviation industry, flush air data sensing (FADS) is an advanced sensor for hypersonic aircraft. However, since the sensor has not been used in engineering practice for a long time, there is still much room for improvement. The main purpose of this paper is to improve the measurement accuracy of FADS from the perspective of fuzzy theory. First, the aerodynamic model of FADS is established based on the knowledge of aerodynamics under supersonic and subsonic conditions. Further, to describe the uncertainty and randomness of redundant signals, normal cloud model, a significant concept in fuzzy theory, is employed. Meanwhile, to reduce the influence of abnormal data on the final measurement accuracy, 3En principle is adopted to preprocess the data. In the process of data fusion using the aggregation operate, a new method of calculating the objective weight vector is derived based on Lagrange multiplier method and simplex evolutionary method of multi-objective programming (MOP). To illustrate the feasibility and validity of the proposed method, two FADS systems with six measurement taps and thirteen taps are adopted, respectively. The experimental results show that for the FADS with six measurement taps, the proposed method can improve the measurement accuracy by 4.55% and reduce the dispersion of data by 61.38%. For the latter, the proposed method can improve the measurement accuracy by 3.43% and reduce the dispersion of data by 50.14%. To further demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method, a detailed comparison with other six widely used methods is carried out.