Electronics and Control

Prediction and Compensation for Vertical Motion of Ideal Touchdown Point in Carrier Landing

  • ZHOU Xin ,
  • PENG Rongkun ,
  • YUAN Suozhong
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  • College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China

Received date: 2012-09-19

  Revised date: 2012-12-07

  Online published: 2012-12-17

Supported by

National Natural Science Foundation of China (61273050);Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (20121352026); Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (NZ2012004)

Abstract

The vertical motion of an ideal touchdown point is a main factor affecting the accuracy and safety of carrier landing. Therefore a carrier aircraft’s ability to synchronously track the vertical motion of the ideal touchdown point is of critical importance. For this, a method of predicting and compensating for the vertical position and speed of the ideal touchdown point is proposed in this paper. The vertical position and speed signals of the ideal touchdown point are first processed by the predictors and compensators and then connected to the longitudinal automatic carrier landing system and vertical speed channel of the flight control system as inputs, which helps the carrier aircraft track the vertical motion of the ideal touchdown point and decreases the influences of deck motion on carrier landing. The designed compensators and predictors are examined and compared with other methods through simulations in different sea states. Simulation results show that the deck motion predictors and compensators designed in this paper can effectively compensate for the landing error caused by deck motion and significantly improve the safety and accuracy of carrier landing.

Cite this article

ZHOU Xin , PENG Rongkun , YUAN Suozhong . Prediction and Compensation for Vertical Motion of Ideal Touchdown Point in Carrier Landing[J]. ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA, 2013 , 34(7) : 1663 -1669 . DOI: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2013.0283

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