Backstepping Control of Aircraft Take-Off in Windshear

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we deal with the problem of aircraft take-off control in the presence of a windshear. A simplified point mass nonlinear model of aircraft dynamics assuming the flight in a vertical plane is used. A reference trajectory is constructed to satisfy the altitude, relative path inclination and relative velocity state constraints. An integrator backstepping based control design procedure using barrier Lyapunov functions is suggested to track the constructed reference trajectory under state constraints and windshear disturbances.