Neural network based adaptive control of airplane’s lateral-directional motion during final approach phase of landing.

The paper presents three new autonomous systems for the control of lateral-directional motion of airplane during landing. The geometry of airplane motion in lateral-directional plane takes into account the wind having different velocities and directions. All the three control systems contain an adaptive control subsystem based on the concepts of dynamic inversion and neural networks; the reference models of the adaptive control systems receive the signals provided by Pseudo Control Hedging blocks, as additional signals, to cancel the neural networks’ adapting difficulties in the case of nonlinear actuators with time delay and saturation zones with respect to the velocity and displacement. Two of the three automatic control systems have proportional–derivative/proportional–integral– derivative controllers for the control of the lateral deviation of airplane with respect to the runway. The new designed adaptive architectures have been software implemented and validated by complex numerical simulations; the obtained results prove the new architectures’ stability and small overshoots. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]