Design and Investigation of a Wind-Shear-Proof Control System for Automatic Landing.

Abstract

An analog computer simulation of the longitudinal portion of an All-Weather Landing System is presented. The linearized longitudinal equations of motion of a DC-8 aircraft during landing approach are converted to state-variable form to facilitate the analog simulation. An Advanced Automatic Flight Control System is added and the approach phase of an automatic landing is simulated. A severe turbulence atmospheric environment consisting of wind gusts and wind shears is an integral part of the simulation. A systematic method is presented for developing a Kalman Filter based wind-shear-proofing system to reduce deviations from glide slope caused by wind shears. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0764697

Entities

People

  • Louis G. Trivett

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analog Computers
  • Automatic
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Equation-Based Simulations
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Glide Slope
  • Kalman Filters
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Turbulence
  • Wind
  • Wind Shear

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.