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A Generic Rendezvous Control Solution for Automatic Landing of Unmanned Aircraft
Julian Theis Institute of Aircraft Systems Engineering, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany
Frank Thielecke Institute of Aircraft Systems Engineering, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany
Abstract:
A generic model of a track-based landing system is formulated and a complete controller layout for motion synchronization with an approaching aircraft is proposed. All required control system parameters are derived in closed form from basic loopshaping principles. They establish a generic solution parameterized in dependence on only a small number of model parameters. That is, there is no need to tune controllers. This way of selecting the parameters further provides significant insight into achievable performance. This insight can then be used to derive requirements for particular realizations on the system level. Exemplary simulation studies with a representative aircraft model and autopilot algorithms demonstrate the high-precision of the proposed controller. Further, robustness with respect to parameter uncertainty is concluded from Monte-Carlo evaluation.
Keywords: Robust control
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Julian Theis, Frank Thielecke: A Generic Rendezvous Control Solution for Automatic Landing of Unmanned Aircraft. Proceedings of the 2019 CEAS EuroGNC conference. Milan, Italy. April 2019. CEAS-GNC-2019-021.
BibTeX entry:

@Incollection{CEAS-GNC-2019-021,
    authors = {Theis, Julian and Thielecke, Frank},
    title = {A Generic Rendezvous Control Solution for Automatic Landing of Unmanned Aircraft},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 {CEAS EuroGNC} conference},
    address = {Milan, Italy},
    month = apr,
    year = {2019},
    note = {CEAS-GNC-2019-021}
}