Civil aircraft automatic landing guidance based on cascaded fractional-order proportional-integral-derivative with an intelligent parameter optimizer

Shaobo Zhai, Guangwen Li, Jialin Mu, Junmin Cheng, Mingshan Hou, School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory of Flight Control and Simulation Technology, National Elite Institute of Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering

Published online on July 08, 2026

Abstract

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Ahead of Print.
This article presents an automatic landing control system integrating cascaded fractional-order proportional-integral-derivative (CFOPID) controller with an intelligent parameter optimizer to address the precision and robustness demands of modern aircraft ...