Aircraft Altitude Control Based on CDM

Abstract

This research presents the controller design for aircraft altitude control based on Coefficient Diagram Method (CDM). The controller, which is designed by CDM, guarantees a good balance of stability, response and robustness. The simulation results of the proposed control system show that the controller is able to control the aircraft altitude as desired and has a disturbance rejection behavior and the response speed can be easily adjusted by specification of the equivalent time constant. As the result, the controller design processes are less complex than other methods and the controller is still effective.