Voter/Monitor Development for a Digital Flight Control System.

Abstract

In the future digital processors will be used to compute control surface deflections based upon pilot inputs, current surface position and other variables. The purpose of this investigation was to generate an algorithm to choose the best output signal from among four asynchronous inputs. The problem was divided into two tasks: comparison monitoring and signal selection. The use of an IMP-16C microprocessor to implement the algorithm is discussed and the design of an interface which will allow communications between the flight control processors and the digital voter/monitor is presented.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA019856

Entities

People

  • Daniel B. Ahern

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Control Surfaces
  • Control Systems
  • Deflection
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Microprocessors
  • Monitoring
  • Surfaces

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.