Objective
Commercial aircraft fault tolerant control (FTC) strategies in the flight control system (FCS) are based on fail-safe approaches whereby a nominal control law is switched first to a robust solution and then if necessary to a direct law controlling the actuators surfaces. Each component of the control law set is designed off-line and has a different level of robustness and performance. The reasons for this conservative FTC approach are:
1. Lack of demonstrated maturity of reconfigurable guidance and control (G&C) methods for commercial aircraft.
2. Lack of research in the practical interaction limitations between reconfigurable G&C systems and estimation / diagnostic systems.
3. A definite gap on the clearance problem for such G&C systems.
The goal of RECONFIGURE is to investigate and develop aircraft G&C technologies that facilitate the automated handling of off-nominal events and optimize the aircraft status and flight while maintaining, or even improving, its safety level. These technologies will extend the operation of the current G&C functionalities that assist the pilot and optimize the aircraft performance. Thus, the aim is to provoke a change in aircraft transport towards: “Full-time, all-event availability of performance-enhancement electrical fly-by-wire”
This will be achieved by developing:
- Advanced parameter and fault estimation/diagnosis approaches.
- Reconfigurable G&C approaches.
- Integration and integrated approaches for estimation, diagnosis and G&C.
- Advanced clearance approaches for such systems.
The investigation will focus on off-nominal/abnormal event scenarios directly affecting the aircraft flight control system. The techniques will offer the capability to adjust and adapt to the abnormal event during flight.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-AAT-2012-RTD-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research projectCoordinator
28760 Tres Cantos (Madrid)
Spain
Participants (9)
31060 Toulouse
51147 Koln
91120 Palaiseau
1111 Budapest
2628 CN Delft
EX4 4QJ Exeter
CB2 1TN Cambridge
BS8 1QU Bristol
28046 Madrid