Shaping Indirect Flight Control System Properties for General Aviation Aircraft
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Aerospace Engineering
- Vol. 24 (1), 59-71
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)as.1943-5525.0000053
Abstract
This paper describes calculations and computer simulations concerning handling qualities of general aviation aircraft equipped with an indirect (fly-by-wire) control system. The main idea of this proposal is shaping small aircraft dynamic characteristics in a way that enables all general aviation aircraft to exhibit similar user-friendly properties from the pilot’s point of view. The natural solution of this problem is modifying aircraft dynamic properties to comply with the “ideal model” of a safe and easily controllable airplane. We can improve the handling qualities of an aircraft using the indirect flight control system. In this paper, the model following method was used for controller synthesis, with the purpose of obtaining qualitatively new handling properties and simplifying the control system for pilots with limited professional training. However, a control system designer has to assume responsibility for proper functioning of complex flight control systems. The properties of the optimal controller were calculated applying the indirect (implicit) model following method. In particular, the modified version based on the computer simulations was used. Model following method allows shaping properties of the flight control systems that satisfactorily approximate those of the desired model of controlled aircraft. In this way, the expected handling qualities can be reached.Keywords
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