Variable static pressure is the main strategy for air volume adjustment in variable air volume air-conditioning system and can offer huge energy savings compared with constant air volume systems. When parameter set-points reset with load, dynamic processes are excited. Some processes take a long time to reach a new stable state with large overshoots. Improved iterative learning control (ILC) algorithm is studied to ameliorate transition processes of the static pressure reset control loop. A mathematical model of the static pressure control loop is established, and a new desired trajectory is given to improve the system tracking performance. Simulation and experimental studies are performed on traditional Proportion Integration Differentiation (PID) control, Proportion Differentiation (PD) type ILC, fuzzy gain PD type ILC and variable speed-integral PID type ILC. Results show that the system has the smallest overshoot and the shortest adjustment time with the fuzzy gain PD type ILC. Meanwhile the system can be betterly stabilized near the set-point with smallest evaluation index and the desired trajectory can be tracked with better dynamic performance. Studies show that the dynamic process is smoothed by improved ILC and variable trajectory. It is of great significance to enhance the whole system stability. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.