Light Sport Aircraft Auto-Land System

Abstract

The paper introduces a description of an automatic landing system for a Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) along with related concept and experimental validation by means of flight testing. The designed Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) which has been implemented on a digital autopilot was subjected to performance evaluations considering requirements inspired aerospace standard SAE AS94900. The autopilot's design robustness was tested on a LSA.