Gain-Scheduled Yaw Control for Aircraft Ground Taxiing

Abstract a gain scheduled yaw controller is proposed to control low speed rolling and manoeuvring of an aircraft on ground. This method is based on local linearisation of a nonlinear model and the synthesis of a family of local controllers. A parallel feedforward action is added to achieve the setpoint tracking and let the feedback controller perform the regulation task. Simulation results show attractive and robust performances regard to the adopted control method.