Adaptive Super-Twisting Control for Automatic Carrier Landing of Aircraft

This paper studies the carrier landing control problem for aircraft in presence of model uncertainty, deck motion, and airwake disturbances. An automatic carrier landing system (ACLS) is designed. An adaptive super-twisting control (ASTC) scheme is proposed for a class of nonlinear multivariable system by combining parameter adaptions and sliding mode differentiators, and is applied to ACLS to ensure the tracking precision, rapidity, and robustness of carrier auto-landing. Simulation results show that the ASTC has better performance than the super-twisting control and proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control.