Aircraft trajectory tracking by nonlinear spatial inversion

With the growth of civil aviation traffic, enhanced accuracy performances are required from guidance systems to maintain efficiency and safety in flight operations. This communication proposes a new representation of aircraft flight dynamics at approach for landing and a space-based nonlinear dynamic inversion control technique for the guidance of transportation aircraft. The main novelty is that the adopted independent variable is distance to land which allows the development of a new guidance approach with a perspective for improved performance.