Aircraft arresting gear is a vital safety device for the airfield to ensure normal landing and block the aircrafts which are accidentally out of runway. According to the condition that the mechanical arresting gear used at the present stage cannot meet the arresting needs of future carrier aircraft types, a kind of electromagnetic arresting gear with arresting electric motor as energy absorption components was put forward. A model of electromagnetic arresting gear considering the effects of kink wave was built. The closedloop control algorithm of electromagnetic arresting gear was designed and was validated by simulation.