Model predictive control for automatic carrier landing considering ship motion

Abstract

This paper studies a control problem of UAV automatic landing on carrier considering carrier heave motion, which is given by an empirical model based on spectral density function. A linearized UAV dynamics model is applied as the predictive model, a MPC controller is then proposed for the flight dynamics control. Simulation is conducted with real parameters of the UAV “Silver Fox”, the results exhibit the great landing performance of MPC method.