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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control including the Symposium on Adaptive Processes, 1979 18th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.1979.270259
