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

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

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

actuators; aircraft computers; aircraft control; control nonlinearities; control system analysis computing; directed graphs; electromagnetic interference; fault tolerant computing; redundancy; state-space methods; EMI; actuator failures; closed loop; control mixer; digital upsets; directed graph representation; fault isolation; fault tolerant control design; fault tolerant microprocessors; flight control systems reconfiguration; fly-by-wire aircraft; global coordinator; harsh electromagnetic environments; integrated local supervisory control; logic changes; nonlinearities; redundancy; state-space equations; transient failures; Actuators; Aerospace control; Aerospace electronics; Aircraft; Control systems; Electromagnetic radiation; Electromagnetic transients; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Logic circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2000. Proceedings. DASC. The 19th

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6395-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2000.886932

Filename

886932