Predictive Controller for Aircraft Landing under Wind Shear

Abstract:

Low altitude wind shear badly threatens aircrafts’ flight safety. Since flight states change rapidly during flying through wind shear, it is deficient to design an optimization controller by off-line analyse. A ring-vortex microburst wind shear model and B747 aircraft flight dynamics model were built. For glide slope tracking under wind shear, an off-line controller was designed by linear quadratic method. Furthermore, a model predictive controller with sequential optimization was designed. Simulation results show the on-line sequential optimization controller possess better tracking performance.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 587-589)
• Pages: 2030-2035
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.587-589.2030
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Zhen Xing Gao*, Zheng Qiang Li
• Keywords: Glide Slope Tracking, Linear Quadratic Regulator, Predictive Control, Wind Shear

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