27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-5.4.2

FLIGHT TRAJECTORY CONTROL BASED ON REQUIRED ACCELERATION FOR FIXED-WING AIRCRAFT

N. Yoshitani
Teikyo Univ., Japan

Keywords: flight dynamics, trajectory control, acceleration vector, flight simulation

A new algorithm of flight trajectory control is presented for fixed-wing aircraft. It calculates a required acceleration vector to obtain roll, pitch and yaw rate commands. It does not require the inverse dynamics nor aerodynamic coefficients of the aircraft. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the algorithm.

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