An important feature in General Aviation (GA) autopilots is the ability to intercept and hold the glideslope and localizer during a landing approach. Most General Aviation landing approach autopilots available today use analog systems. This paper presents the designs of digital landing approach autopilots for a General Aviation (NAVION) aircraft using modern linear quadratic control theory. Each constant gain, direct digitally designed autopilot operates synchronously at a slow rate (10 samples per second) and has modest memory requirements, i.e., a full state Kalman filter is not used. The autopilot is designed to track desired position trajectories constructed in an ILS or MLS terminal area using command generators. Alternative command errors for intercepting and holding the localizer beam centerline are investigated. Linear simulations and flight test results are presented demonstrating the successful application of the linear quadratic regulator approach.


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    Title :

    Design and flight testing of a digital landing approach autopilot


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    Publication date :

    1983-01-01


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    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English




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