Digital Flight Control System Redundancy Study

Abstract

Redundancy requirements and trade-off criteria are established for flight critical digital flight control systems with particular emphasis on the fly-by-wire application. The use of general purpose digital computers is considered, with self-test and cross-channel comparison monitoring techniques to obtain the necessary flight safety reliability. A reliability model is presented which includes the effects of detected and undetected failures and provides a basis for establishing in-flight and preflight test coverage requirements consistent with a given reliability goal.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA006411

Entities

People

  • Gibson Reynolds
  • John Mcgough
  • John Strole
  • Kurt Moses
  • Walter Platt

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Automatic Pilots
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Transmission
  • Digital Computers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Reliability
  • Test Equipment
  • Transport Aircraft

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

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