Seungho Yoon* and Youdan Kim***, Sanghyuk Park**
International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sicences, vol. 13, no. 1, pp.101-116, 2012

Abstract : An adaptive backstepping controller is designed for the automatic landing of a fixed-wing aircraft. The backstepping control scheme is adopted by using the nonlinear six degree-of-freedom dynamics of the aircraft during the landing phase. The adaptive law is integrated along with the backstepping controller in order to estimate the aircraft modeling errors as well as the external disturbance. The dynamic constraints of the states and the actuator inputs are taken into account in the parameter adaptation. This is done to prevent an aggressive adaptation and to provide reliable control commands. Numerical simulations were performed to verify the performance of the proposed control law for the landing of the aircraft with the presence of gust and actuator stuck.

Keyword : Adaptive control, backstepping scheme, hedging technique, command filter, automatic landing