A Fuzzy Human Pilot Model of Longitudinal Control for a Carrier Landing Task

Abstract

Human pilot models are tightly dependent on the specific flight tasks. For a carrier landing task, the human pilot controls the aircraft glide path by the guidance information from the Fresnel lens optical landing system (FLOLS) during the aircraft approach to the carrier. This paper focuses on the modeling of the human pilot behavior of sensing and recognizing the guidance information from the Fresnel lens of the FLOLS in longitudinal motion. A fuzzy human pilot model is built based on a fuzzy logic control theory to simulate the human pilot behavior. The simulations of carrier landing are conducted to illustrate the advantages and effectiveness of the proposed fuzzy human pilot model.