Preview Control and Particle Filtering for Automatic Carrier Landing

This paper studies the automatic carrier landing control problem of aircrafts with the system dynamics of nonlinearity and multivariable coupling, by applying preview control scheme. An automatic carrier landing system is developed, including a particle filtering based flight deck motion prediction, a corrected reference glide slope generation and an integrated guidance and control modules. A preview control algorithm is presented to guarantee the optimal tracking performance, and simulations demonstrate the better carrier landing performance under the deck motion and airwake disturbances, comparing with the proportional-integral-derivative control scheme.