Simplified Scheme for Longitudinal Control of an Airplane UAV

This paper proposes a simplified scheme for the longitudinal control of an airplane type UA V. It is intended the scheme to be implemented on board with simple, low cost devices. In most works in literature there are proposed very performing and sophisticated control schemes, studied around a base flight regime. There is the problem to control the UA V on wide domains in the flight envelope, not only in a restricted domain around one base flight regime. Proposed scheme is tested on the non-linear model of the UA V flight dynamics and the results highlight a good behavior for wide flight regime variations.