URV Flight Test of an ADA Implemented Self-Repairing Flight Control System

Abstract

Self-Repairing Flight Control System (SRFCS) technology is an extension of traditional redundancy management. It uses existing redundancy in aircraft control surfaces to compensate for control surface failures and battle damage effects. This report describes the results of flight tests of a SRFCS, coded in Ada for an Unmanned Research Vehicle (URV). This includes a description of the design of the control reconfiguration method, the Failure Detection (FDI) method, the Ada code, the URV model, data analysis of the flight test time histories, and the computational aspects of the algorithms. Time history plots of selected flight test results are included in this report and acceptable performance was achieved for all the failure cases which were flown.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA259205

Entities

People

  • John Houtz
  • Mark J. Mears
  • Stan Pruett

Organizations

  • Wright Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Surfaces
  • Control Systems
  • Damage Detection
  • Detection
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Flight Control Systems
  • High Level Languages
  • Measurement
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Reliability
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
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Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control