...Jiaxin Li; Zhigang Wu; Shuaibin An; Yanqi Feng; Guan Wang; Jian Guo; Kai Liu Purpose This study aims to provide an effective approach to mechanism model refinement for the wide speed range hypersonic vehicle considering aero-propulsion coupling characteristics. The analysis of the influence...

...Shuo Wang; Yangyang Liu; Xinhua Wang; Jinfa Xu; Lin Meng Purpose Climbing tracking control of a hypersonic vehicle is a challenging problem because of the large model uncertainties and great variation of altitude and velocity. The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel adaptive high-order...

...He-Wei Zhao; Li-bin Yang Purpose This paper aims to discuss the precise altitude and velocity tracking control of a hypersonic vehicle, a global adaptive neural backstepping controller was studied based on a disturbance observer (DOB). Design/methodology/approach The DOB combined with a radial...

...Qiang Xue; Duan Haibin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a new approach for aerodynamic parameter identification of hypersonic vehicles, which is based on Pigeon-inspired optimization (PIO) algorithm, with the objective of overcoming the disadvantages of traditional methods based...

...Chao Tao; Jing Wan; Jianliang Ai Purpose The purpose of the paper is to design a robust control system for a generic hypersonic vehicle which includes dynamic nonlinear, open loop unstable and parametric uncertainties. Design/methodology/approach For a complex longitudinal model of a generic...