• DocumentCode
    3030262
  • Title

    VTOL control for shipboard landing in high sea states

  • Author

    McMuldroch, Christopher ; Stein, G. ; Athans, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1979
  • fDate
    12-14 Dec. 1979
  • Firstpage
    626
  • Lastpage
    629
  • Abstract
    A control algorithm is developed for a VTOL type aircraft landing on a small ship in rough seas. The work covers modelling the dynamics of the two vehicles, the design of an aircraft-tracking-ship-motion controller, and the specification of an actual landing control algorithm. The landing controller design is more practical and found to perform better than the hover controller. In addition to outlining a design technique, the results provide design guidelines and performance bounds for practical landing control systems.
  • Keywords
    Engines; Laboratories; Oceans; Sea surface;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Decision and Control including the Symposium on Adaptive Processes, 1979 18th IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CDC.1979.270259
  • Filename
    4046487