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Computational Experimental Test on PID Controlled Fixed Wing Aircraft Systems
Research Article | Published: 18 May 2025
ICCK Transactions on Sensing, Communication, and Control Volume 2, Issue 2, 2025: 95-105
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ICCK Transactions on Sensing, Communication, and Control, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2025: 95-105

Free to Read | Research Article | 18 May 2025
Computational Experimental Test on PID Controlled Fixed Wing Aircraft Systems
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Eileen Horstkötter Eileen Horstkötter 1
Quanmin Zhu Quanmin Zhu 1 *
1 School of Engineering, University of the West of England, Bristol BS16 1QY, United Kingdom
* Corresponding Author: Quanmin Zhu, [email protected]
DOI: 10.62762/TSCC.2025.731885
Received: 14 February 2025, Accepted: 11 May 2025, Published: 18 May 2025  
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Abstract
This paper focuses on the implementation of a control framework for a fixed wing aircraft system and the simulation demonstrations. The aim is to develop several Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controllers to stabilise the altitude and attitude in a 2D environment by regulating the engine power, the pitch angle, and height in flight operation. In technique, a dynamic mathematical model is established by considering the degrees of freedom and the dynamics of motion of a fixed wing aircraft, which provide a foundation for design and simulation. A simplified aircraft dynamic model is tailored for testing the formed control systems, which can be flexibly modified with different aircraft configurations, for a showcase illustration a calculation of the moment of inertia is included. Further, several flight settings such as height differences and velocities are proposed and a feasible implementation of the PID controllers is introduced for adjusting the control variables, and further a switching mode with two controllers for the height with different speeds are simulated to select the height linked controllers.
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Computational Experimental Test on PID Controlled Fixed Wing Aircraft Systems
Keywords
aircraft dynamic modelling
control systems
PID
simulation
Matlab/Simulink
Data Availability Statement
Data will be made available on request.
Funding
This work was supported without any funding.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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Horstkötter, E., & Zhu, Q. (2025). Computational Experimental Test on PID Controlled Fixed Wing Aircraft Systems. ICCK Transactions on Sensing, Communication, and Control, 2(2), 95–105. https://doi.org/10.62762/TSCC.2025.731885
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