Development and flight test of an augmented thrust-only flight control system on an MD-11 transport airplane

Burcham, Frank W.; Maine, Trindel A.; Burken, John J.; Pappas, Drew

doi:10.2514/6.1996-3742

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“…PCA is a special case of MMST, where the only anticipated fault is total hydraulics failure and only the engines can be used for control. There have been some successful flight tests with PCA on a F-15 and an MD-11 in the beginning of the 1990's [32,33].…”

Section: Multiple Model Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptive Backstepping Flight Control for Modern Fighter Aircraft

Sonneveldt¹

2011

Advances in Flight Control Systems

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Section: Multiple Model Controlmentioning

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Adaptive Backstepping Flight Control for Modern Fighter Aircraft

Sonneveldt¹

2011

Advances in Flight Control Systems

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“…The SRFCS program was followed by another flight-test program at Dryden for propulsion-only control of an aircraft that had suffered loss of all control surfaces due to a hydraulic failure [10,36]. The idea behind this program was developed by Burcham, on the basis of a Sioux City incident in 1989 in which the flight crew had remarkably succeeded in making a hard landing with a large commercial aircraft, using thrust from the engines as the only control effectors.…”

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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“…After the possibility of control using only the engine throttles was demonstrated by the Sioux City accident (see Chapter 1), and following a recommendation from the National Transportation Safety Board of America, the PCA problem was taken up by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center [16,17] in order to provide a backup in case of total hydraulic failure. PCA is a specific instance of a multi-model approach where the fault model is identical to the nominal one, but in which all control surfaces are free floating.…”

Section: Propulsion Controlled Aircraft (Pca)mentioning

confidence: 99%