Reconfiguration of flight control systems for actuator failures

Author

Bajpai, G. ; Chang, B.C. ; Lau, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng. & Mech., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

Volume

16

Issue

9

fYear

2001

fDate

9/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

33

Abstract

We consider the problem of designing fault tolerant control for transient failures in the flight control system caused by harsh electromagnetic environments. We examine principles of fault tolerant design and discuss integrated local supervisory control of these systems. As an example, we present a sample design of a control mixer to achieve fault tolerance in the event of failures in the actuators

Keywords

aircraft computers; aircraft control; electromagnetic interference; fault tolerant computing; redundancy; transients; actuator failures; control computer; control mixer; control system reconfiguration; fault tolerant control design; flight control system; fly by wire; harsh electromagnetic environments; integrated local supervisory control; redundancy; safety issue; transient failures; Actuators; Aerospace control; Aerospace electronics; Aircraft propulsion; Central Processing Unit; Control systems; Electromagnetic transients; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Logic circuits;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/62.949534

Filename

949534