The use of modern robust control design methods in the autoland system design process - the REAL project

The REAL project dealt with the inclusion of advance robust control techniques in the process of development of autoland systems, in order to reduce the non-recuring costs. New design approaches were set up. Although they can still be improved, e.g. automated, these processes have already demonstrated the potential to shorten the design time considerably while achieving satisfactorily robust autoland controllers. Autoland systems were developed for and flight tested on DLR's ATTAS VFW 614 aircraft in the summer 2000 period.