Nonlinear energy-based control method for aircraft automatic landing systems

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 871-884

  Akmeliawati, Rini ^a   Mareels, Iven M Y ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autopilot; Dissipative energy based design; Lyapunov stability; Nonlinear system; Trajectory tracking

Indexed keywords

AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH; AIRCRAFT AUTOMATIC LANDING SYSTEM; AIRCRAFT DYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT MODELING; AUTOMATIC FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; AUTOMATIC LANDING SYSTEMS; CIVIL AIRCRAFTS; CONTROL LAWS; ENERGY FUNCTIONS; ENERGY-BASED CONTROL; ENERGY-BASED DESIGN; FLIGHT CONDITIONS; LYAPUNOV STABILITY; PASSIVITY BASED CONTROL; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; SINGULAR PERTURBATIONS; TOTAL ENERGY;

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT CONTROL; AIRCRAFT LANDING; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FUZZY CONTROL; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; POWER CONTROL; SYSTEM STABILITY;

AIRCRAFT LANDING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77954145803     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2009.2030788     Document Type: Article

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