Title: Automatic Landing Control Based on GPS for Fixed-Wing Aircraft
Abstract: This paper presents an automatic landing scheme for a small fixed-wing aircraft. Since visual servoing usually suffers from bad light condition, we instead propose a GPS based approach. On-board GPS device along with other sensors will track the designed flight path which is determined from the computed coordinates of the final approach and flare legs. These two coordinates will be determined according to headwind and crosswind speeds so that the heading of the aircraft will align with the heading of the runway. The height of the aircraft will be computed based on differential pressure between the on-board barometric sensor and ground barometric sensor. Moreover, in order to keep the aircraft along the flight path, cross track error minimization technique will be explained. Finally, the experimental results with 1.7 meters wing span aircraft will show the effectiveness of our proposed landing scheme.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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