Large transport aircraft: Solving control challenges of the future

Jones, Tina

doi:10.1016/j.arcontrol.2014.09.005

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“…Recent effort in the field of FCS design is directed towards the improvement of safety, efficiency and overall cost [2]. Airbus patented a robust control system that does not need a large amount of cabling and is based on transmitting calculated signals over the data bus in the form of command messages [3].…”

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Technologies for distributed flight control systems: A review

Šegvić

Krajcek

Ivanjko

2015

2015 38th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO)

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This paper reviews the state of the art (SOTA) in distributed flight control technologies using publicly available, scientific and technical publications. Technological developments, such as embedded computing and microelectromechanical systems are enabling advanced aerospace-oriented distributed systems. Distributed systems are comprised of a large number of simple elements, each with its own sensing, actuation and control, in order to obtain the desired behaviour. These systems have the potential to be more economic than a centralized system due to the simplicity of individual components, and possibility of using the same production unit for a different role within the system. The challenge with these systems is the coordination amongst nodes comprising a distributed control network. Benefits of distributed architecture are increased robustness trough redundancy and inherent fault tolerance. The SOTA summary comprises a description of challenges in the design of flight control systems with a distributed structure, technologies currently used in flight control systems and also technologies not specifically related to distributed flight control but applicable for the design of future flight control strategies. Described systems and technologies are represented with examples of real systems including swarms of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and distributed networks for Fault Detection and Isolation.I.

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Technologies for distributed flight control systems: A review

Šegvić

Krajcek

Ivanjko

2015

2015 38th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO)

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“…The same argument can also be made for more traditional vehicles such as future commercial airliners. Jones [43] reported the use of bifurcation analysis in a review of control challenges for future operations of commercial transport aircraft. Applications include using bifurcation diagrams of the form shown in figure 4 but with the addition of a fly-bywire controller [44,45] to understand the requirements of automatic Return to Envelope Function strategies for aircraft recovery from upset.…”

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Numerical continuation and bifurcation analysis in aircraft design: an industrial perspective

Sharma

Coetzee

Lowenberg

et al. 2015

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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Bifurcation analysis is a powerful method for studying the steady-state nonlinear dynamics of systems. Software tools exist for the numerical continuation of steady-state solutions as parameters of the system are varied. These tools make it possible to generate ‘maps of solutions’ in an efficient way that provide valuable insight into the overall dynamic behaviour of a system and potentially to influence the design process. While this approach has been employed in the military aircraft control community to understand the effectiveness of controllers, the use of bifurcation analysis in the wider aircraft industry is yet limited. This paper reports progress on how bifurcation analysis can play a role as part of the design process for passenger aircraft.

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Large transport aircraft: Solving control challenges of the future

Cited by 2 publications

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Technologies for distributed flight control systems: A review

Technologies for distributed flight control systems: A review

Numerical continuation and bifurcation analysis in aircraft design: an industrial perspective

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