NONLINEAR TRAJECTORY- FOLLOWING AND CONTROL TECHNIQUES IN THE TERMINAL AREA USING THE MLS NAVIGATION SENSOR

P. Madden and M. Desai

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Abstract: Guidance and control techniques have been developed to permit accurate nonlinear pathfollowing in the terminal area using an MLS & DME database. The elements of the system including trajectory generation, mean-wind estimation, feedforward and pertubation control are described and the performance of the integrated system delineated. The investigation was made with the aid of a sophisticated digital simulation, including modelling of the sensor and environmental noise. A conventional jet transport was the subject aircraft. A conclusion of the investigation was that the integrated guidance and control system was adequate to the task of path tracking with errors within the resolution of ATC radar. A corollary is that a degraded MLS, relative to that required for the landing task, operating at low scan rates provides navigational data of sufficient accuracy to perform the curved approach task.
Published in: NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation, Volume 20, Number 4
Pages: 285 - 295
Cite this article: Madden, P., Desai, M., "NONLINEAR TRAJECTORY- FOLLOWING AND CONTROL TECHNIQUES IN THE TERMINAL AREA USING THE MLS NAVIGATION SENSOR", NAVIGATION: Journal of The Institute of Navigation, Vol. 20, No. 4, Winter 1973-1974, pp. 285-295.
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