A Combined MBPC/H-infinity Autopilot for a Civil Aircraft

Presented at ACC'97, June 1997.

Combined MBPC/H-infinity Autopilot for a Civil Aircraft

G. Papageorgiou, M. Huzmezan, K. Glover and J. Maciejowski

Abstract

This paper motivates the combined use of H-infinity loop-shaping and MBPC as a method of designing automatic pilots for civil aircraft. The H-infinity loop-shaping controller will provide stability augmentation and guidance. The MBPC controller will act as a flight manager. The design procedure developed was tested by designing an autopilot for the Research Civil Aircraft Model (RCAM) used in the GARTEUR design challenge. The resulting controller was subjected to a standard evaluation procedure. Satisfactory results were achieved.