Control reconfigurable combat aircraft flight control system development

Weinstein, W.; Posingies, W. M.; Eslinger, Robert; Gross, Harry N.

doi:10.2514/6.1986-2236

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“…Recognizing that achieving the full potential of reconfigurable control might require incorporation in initial aircraft design, this effort initially focused on both the F-16 and a fictitious study aircraft called the control reconfigurable combat aircraft (CRCA), which would be designed by Grumman to have a wide variety of potential reconfiguration possibilities [22]. GE initially focused on the F-16, whereas studies were done on the CRCA, which ultimately lead to a downselect of lear astronics to develop the control law and Charles river analytics to develop the FDIE approach.…”

Section: Early Approaches Based On Failure Detection Isolation and mentioning

confidence: 99%

Historical Overview of Research in Reconfigurable Flight Control

Steinberg

2005

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G:

112

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This article presents a historical overview of research in reconfigurable flight control. For the purpose of this article, the term 'reconfigurable flight control' is used to refer to software algorithms designed specifically to compensate for failures or damage of flight control effectors or lifting surfaces, using the remaining effectors to generate compensating forces and moments. This article will discuss initial research and flight testing of approaches based on explicit fault detection, isolation, and estimation, as well as later approaches based on continuously adaptive and intelligent control algorithms. In addition, approaches for trajectory reshaping of an impaired aircraft with reconfigurable inner loop control laws will be briefly discussed. Finally, there will be some discussion on current implementations of reconfigurable control to improve safety on production and flight test aircraft and remaining challenges to enable broader use of the technology, such as the difficulties of flight certification of these types of approaches.

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Section: Early Approaches Based On Failure Detection Isolation and mentioning

confidence: 99%