Julian Theis, Harald Pfifer, and myself developed a fully automated landing control system for a benchmark aircraft model provided by AIRBUS. The developed control system answered an IFAC World Congress 2017 challenge set-up by ONERA and AIRBUS to develop fully automated landing systems for modern aircraft in case of strong side winds.

The benchmark model in Matlab/Simulink and the problem definition can be freely downloaded from ONERA's SMAC homepage.

A Simulink implementation of our developed landing controller can be found on the SMAC homepage. The controller is fully compatible with the benchmark model. The m-files to design and generate the landing controller can be downloaded here (Matlab and Control Toolbox required).

The following 2 publication provide details on the design and validation results of the designed controller:

• J. Theis, D. Ossmann and H. Pfiffer. "Robust Autopilot Design for Crosswind Landing", in Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, July 2017.
• J. Theis, D. Ossmann, F. Thielecke and H. Pfiffer. "Robust autopilot design for landing a large civil aircraft in crosswind", in Control Engineering Practice, July 2018.