The control (via the angle of attack) of the vertical flight of an aircraft taking off at maximum power in a horizontal wind shear with downdraft is investigated analytically. Optimal trajectories to recover the initial path inclination or to recover quasi-steady flight (the relative values of the velocity, path inclination, and angle of attack) are derived using a Chebyshev approach and shown to be nearly identical in the shear but divergent after the shear. These results are then applied to construct a trajectory-guidance control comprising a variable-gamma guidance scheme for the shear trajectory, a constant-gamma guidance scheme for the immediate postshear trajectory, and a constant-rate-of-climb guidance scheme for the aftershear trajectory. Numerical results demonstrating the near-optimal performance of the control are presented in tables and graphs.
Quasi-steady flight to quasi-steady flight transition in a windshear - Trajectory guidance
1987-01-01
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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