Patent ID: 9360869
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G05D

Claim Text:
1. A method for controlling an aircraft, comprising: obtaining at least one of ground-referenced longitudinal movement data of the aircraft and ground-referenced lateral movement data of the aircraft; obtaining a ground-referenced heading of the aircraft; calculating a heading error based on a difference between the ground-referenced heading and a target heading; generating a lateral movement error value based on at least one of the ground-referenced longitudinal movement data and ground-referenced lateral movement data, and based on the heading error; and generating a longitudinal movement error value based on at least one of the ground-referenced longitudinal movement data and ground-referenced lateral movement data, and based on the heading error, wherein the longitudinal movement error value is a ground-referenced longitudinal speed error value, and the ground-referenced longitudinal speed error value is generated according to the equation: wherein u