Robust adaptive preview control design for autonomous carrier landing of F/A-18 aircraft
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology
ISSN: 0002-2667
Article publication date: 3 June 2021
Issue publication date: 7 July 2021
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to design an innovative autonomous carrier landing system (ACLS) using novel robust adaptive preview control (RAPC) method, which can assure safe and successful autonomous carrier landing under the influence of airwake disturbance and irregular deck motion. To design a deck motion predictor based on an unscented Kalman filter (UKF), which predicts the touchdown point, very precisely.
Design/methodology/approach
An ACLS is comprising a UKF based deck motion predictor, a previewable glide path module and a control system. The previewable information is augmented with the system and then latitude and longitudinal controllers are designed based on the preview control scheme, in which the robust adaptive feedback and feedforward gain’s laws are obtained through Lyapunov stability theorem and linear matrix inequality approach, guarantying the closed-loop system’s asymptotic stability.
Findings
The autonomous carrier landing problem is solved by proposing robust ACLS, which is validated through numerical simulation in presence of sea disturbance and time-varying external disturbances.
Practical implications
The ACLS is designed considering the practical aspects of the application, presenting superior performance with extended robustness.
Originality/value
The novel RAPC, relative motion-based guidance system and deck motion compensation mechanism are developed and presented, never been implemented for autonomous carrier landing operations.
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Acknowledgements
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NO. 6197315, 61673209).
Citation
Bhatia, A.K., Ju, J., Ziyang, Z., Ahmed, N., Rohra, A. and Waqar, M. (2021), "Robust adaptive preview control design for autonomous carrier landing of F/A-18 aircraft", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 93 No. 4, pp. 642-650. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEAT-11-2020-0244
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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