Abstract:
The main objective of this thesis is to design a fuzzy PID controller of a longitudinal
autopilot for a Transport Aircraft. We design the self-tuning PID parameters so as to improve the
system response and performance, to reduce the error and cost, and to make a PID controller
more reliable for industrial processes.
It is assumed that the longitudinal aircraft motion is a short period of motion. We
examine the PID fuzzy controller using MATLAB/Simulink toolbox. The simulation shows that
the self-tuning PID fuzzy controller realize a good dynamic behavior of the pitch-attitude
autopilot and give a better performance compare with a conventional PID controller.
