Pilot Control Modeling With Stochastic Periodical Discrete Movement

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel pilot control model which reflects the following three characteristics of the pilot control behavior: stochastic, periodical, and discrete movement. The focus is on the final descent phase when the pilot controls the aircraft manually based on the flight director commands. The proposed model is developed based on an existing model as well as highly experienced pilot's comments. A flight simulator experiment is conducted and three pilots’ landing data are obtained. The parameters of the pilot model are tuned via a genetic algorithm. The simulation result reveals that the proposed model captures well the characteristics of the data obtained in the simulator experiment and shows a good accordance with actual command tracking capability. The obtained parameters also identify the difference of control strategies between the pilots.